NYPA Celebrates Electricity Inventor Nikola Tesla’s Birthday at the John S. Dyson New York Energy Zone July 10

For Immediate Release: 07/08/21

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UTICA—The New York Power Authority will celebrate Nikola Tesla’s Birthday Saturday, July 10 at its newly constructed NY Energy Zone, an admission-free NYPA visitors center in Utica, the area’s most energizing new attraction.  As part of the festivities, NYPA will have special giveaways for the first 100 visitors. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tesla, who designed the modern electricity supply system that literally lit up the world, was an ethnic Serb born in present-day Croatia, who immigrated to the United States to pursue his work in the budding field of electricity with Thomas Edison, eventually teaming up with George Westinghouse and changed the world by making Alternating Current the standard for electricity delivery worldwide.

Through interactive exhibits, games, and a fantastic 3-D movie created by cinema special effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull, visitors to the NY Energy Zone will experience a powerful journey through the past, present, and future of electricity, and New York State’s part in it. Nikola Tesla is prominently featured in the Energy Zone. The NY Energy Zone also features a “high-tech” STEM (science, technology, engineering, & math) classroom and meeting rooms, available for use by the public by reservation.

Open since May, the NY Energy Zone is now open for tours 10 AM to 4 PM, seven days a week; reservations are not required, except for groups greater than ten persons. Admission is always free of charge.

The NY Energy Zone is located adjacent to the Utica Zoo at 35 Utica Zoo Way. Take Utica’s Memorial Parkway to Utica Zoo Way and proceed up the hill. 

For more information about the NY Energy Zone, visit:

https://www.nypa.gov/communities/visitors-centers/ny-energy-zone

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