Death of Nikola Tesla, Hotel New Yorker

Nikola Tesla dies alone in room 3327 of the Hotel New Yorker, aged 86. He had been working through the night on what his correspondence described as a directed energy beam, the teleforce weapon also called the death ray. Within hours of his death the United States Office of Alien Property would begin the chain of actions that ended with the seizure of two truckloads of his papers and a sealed contents that still draws questions eight decades later.