Source: Tanjug

NEW YORK -- The US-based Tesla Science Foundation has handed out the traditional Tesla Spirit Awards in a ceremony in New York.

Elon Musk (Beta/AP, file)

The top honor was claimed by Tesla Motors owner Elon Musk.

Musk, his company and foundation won the award "ffor their contribution to the global promotion of Tesla's name with their luxury electric car brand and generous donations for the construction of the future Tesla Science Museum on Long Island."

On that location more than a century ago, the Serbian-American engineer and inventor conducted his high-voltage current experiments and began the construction of the controversial, never completed Tesla Tower, designed to enable wireless transfer of electric current.

Last year, on July 10, the day of Tesla's birth, Musk donated USD 1 million for the reconstruction of Tesla's Wardenclyffe laboratory.

Among the winners of individual Tesla awards are the Telefonica Foundation, a non-profit branch of the Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica, the Long Island-based Tesla Science Centre and its president Jane Alcorn for their commitment to preserving Tesla's scientific legacy.

Ashley Redfearn and her Tesla Curriculum also won an award, for a project aimed at introducing Tesla as a school curriculum.

The Tesla spirituality award went to the Serbian Orthodox church in New York and Marina Arsenijevic, a renowned pianist and composer of Serbian descent, for the music for the documentary titled Tower to the People.

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