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What
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- Alexander
Popov,
radio
pioneer,
in front
of the
Congress
of Russian
Electrical
Engineers
in 1900: "the
emission
and
reception
of signals
by Marconi
by means
of
electric
oscillations
is nothing
new. In
America,
the famous
engineer
Nikola
Tesla
carried
the same
experiments
in
1893."
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- James
Wait,
in charge
of the USA
project
for radio
communications
with
submarines
at low
frequencies:
"from
a historic
point of
view,
Nikola
Tesla
imagined a
world
communications
system
employing
a huge
emitter in
Colorado
Springs in
1899;
unfortunately,
his
sponsor
cut all
financial
support.
Tesla's
experiments
however
have a
tremendous
similarity
to the
future
development
of low
frequency
communications."
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- B.A.
Behrend,
famous
American
scientist.
It is said
that when
his
colleagues
thought
they had
discovered
something
new, he
suggested
they first
had a look
at Tesla's
patents
before
proceeding
with
publishing
their
findings.
- Were
we to
seize and
eliminate
from our
industrial
world the
results of
Mr.
Tesla's
work, the
wheels of
industry
would
cease to
turn, our
electric
cars and
trains
would
stop, our
towns
would be
dark, our
mills
would be
dead and
idle. Yes,
so far
reaching
is his
work that
it has
become the
warp and
woof of
industry...
His name
marks an
epoch in
the
advance of
electrical
science.
From that
work has
sprung a
revolution...
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- Edwine
Armstrong,
Tesla's
colleague,
later
honored
with a
Nobel
prize: "I
believe
that the
world will
wait long
time for a
progress
and
imagination
equal to
Tesla's."
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- W.W.
Rice Jr.
- From
his work
followed
the great
work of Röntgen,
who
discovered
the Röntgen
rays, and
all that
work which
has been
carried on
throughout
the world
in
following
years by
J.J.
Thomson
and
others,
which has
really led
to the
conception
of modern
physics.
His
work...
antedated
that of
Marconi
and formed
the basis
of
wireless
telegraphy...
and so on
throughout
all
branches
of science
and
engineering
we find...
important
evidence
of what
Tesla has
contributed...
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- I.C.M.
Brentano
- There
are three
aspects of
Tesla's
work which
particularly
deserve
our
admiration:
The
importance
of the
achievements
in
themselves,
as judged
by their
practical
bearing;
the
logical
clearness
and purity
of
thought,
with which
the
arguments
are
pursued
and new
results
obtained;
the vision
and the
inspiration,
I should
almost say
the
courage,
of seeing
remote
things far
ahead and
so opening
up new
avenues to
mankind.
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- E.F.W.
Alexanderson
- In
almost
every step
of
progress
in
electrical
power
engineering,
as well as
in radio,
we can
trace the
spark of
thought
back to
Nikola
Tesla.
There are
few indeed
who in
their
lifetime
see
realization
of such a
far-flung
imagination.
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- Peter
II
Karadjordjevic
(King of
Yugoslavia)
- In
his
diaries (A
King's
Heritage),
under date
July 8,
1942, the
young
Peter II
writes:
"I
visited
Dr. Nicola
Tesla, the
world-famous
Yugoslav-American
scientist,
in his
apartment
in the
Hotel New
Yorker.
After I
had
greeted
him the
aged
scientist
said: `It
is my
greatest
honor. I
am glad
you are in
your
youth, and
I am
content
that you
will be a
great
ruler. I
believe I
will live
until you
come back
to a free
Yugoslavia.
From your
father you
have
received
his last
words:
`Guard
Yugoslavia.'
I am proud
to be a
Serbian
and a
Yugoslav.
Our people
cannot
perish.
Preserve
the unity
of all
Yugoslavs
- the
Serbs, the
Croats,
and
Slovenes.'"
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- Gano
Dunn
- Prolific
inventor,
who solved
the
greatest
problem in
electrical
engineering
of his
time, and
gave to
the world
the
polyphase
motor and
system of
distribution,
revolutionizing
the power
art and
founding
its
phenomenal
development.
My contact
as your
assistant
at the
historic
Columbia
University
high
frequency
lecture
and
afterward
has left
an
indelible
impression
and
inspiration
which has
influenced
my life
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- Chauncey
McGovern
- Fancy
yourself
seated in
a large,
well-lighted
room, with
mountains
of
curious-looking
machinery
on all
sides. A
tall, thin
young man
walks up
to you,
and by
merely
snapping
his
fingers
creates
instantaneously
a ball of
leaping
red flame,
and holds
it calmly
in his
hands. As
you gaze
you are
surprised
to see it
does not
burn his
fingers.
He lets it
fall upon
his
clothing,
on his
hair, into
your lap,
and,
finally,
puts the
ball of
flame into
a wooden
box. You
are amazed
to see
that
nowhere
does the
flame
leave the
slightest
trace, and
you rub
your eyes
to make
sure you
are not
asleep.
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