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...four years before Guglielmo Marconi took out patents in Britain-Nikola Tesla patented in the U. S. a system of wireless transmission. A scarehead newspaper heard his prophecy that soon ships at sea would call electrically for help, to other ships or shore stations, without having any wired connection. The scarehead editor, well aware of his sheet's reputation, said: "We could not afford to print such a piece of inventive lunacy...
Though radio was not among them, inventive lunacies had filled Nikola Tesla's head when he was younger. Before he left his native village to study at an academy in Croatia he dreamed of constructing a submarine tube for carrying letters and packages under the Atlantic between Europe and the U. S. He thought the rotating planets might be harnessed to produce power...
...while walking in a park and quoting Goethe to a friend that Nikola Tesla "saw" the induction motor that first brought him fame. He was able to draw it with a stick on the sandy path in the exact detail with which he presented it, six years later, to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...
Thomas Edison's European agent was the man who brought the young Tesla to the U. S. After his first job for Mr. Edison?an all-night job putting a steamer's lighting plant in commission?Mr. Edison ejaculated to an associate: "This is a damn good...
...fame spread, Mr. Tesla grew more and more wedded to his work. He never took a wife. Before he was 40 he had revolutionized power transmission machines and Lord Kelvin had said of him that he had contributed more to electrical science than any other man. He worked, as he still does, early and late at his laboratory in West 40th St., Manhattan, dining alone at the same hour, at the same table in the Waldorf...