a meeting of famous people OR not Plus Ultra

 I was watching the movie: Tomorrowland (2015) recently.  One of the fictional premises was that Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Gustave Eiffel and Jules Verne were part of a secret society called Plus Ultra.

Eiffel, Edison, Tesla, Verne

Which got me to thinking:  did Tesla ever meet Steinmetz ?  Of course Steinmetz knew Edison:

 

Steinmetz and the famously hard of hearing Edison

  And Edison and Tesla had met although that didn't end friendly :)  But did Tesla meet Steinmetz ?

This is a photo of a group of men in 1921, Einstein and Steinmetz stand out and there is a fellow behind them purported to be Tesla.  But although this man is slim and has a mustache he doesn't appear to be Tesla's height (6 foot 2 inches).  He should have towered over Einstein (5 foot 9 inches) and Steinmetz (4 foot).  Apparently the man was named John Renshaw Carson, an engineer.  Later in the century another John Carson made David Sarnoff a lot of money as the host of the Tonight Show on NBC :)

April 23, 1921 at New Brunswick, NJ

There are other notables in this picture, David Sarnoff (leaning to his left), the driving force behind RCA.  Marconi and Lee de Forest are supposed to be on the far right but the June 1921 issue of RCA World Wide Wireless (the first WWW ?) identifies the whole lot this way:

source:  https://worldradiohistory.com/ARCHIVE-RCA/RCA-World-Wide-Wireless/RCA-World-Wide-Wireless-1921-06.pdf

So it was really just a stunt for Einstein's benefit with Steinmetz and Sarnoff also there but it would have been more fun (for me anyway) if Tesla had been there.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm