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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
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“TESLA’S CAT
[Nikola Tesla’s favorite childhood companion] was the family’s black cat, Macak. Macak followed young Nikola everywhere, and they spent many happy hours rolling on the grass.
It was Macak the cat who introduced Tesla to electricity on a dry winter evening. “As I stroked Macak’s back,” he recalled, “I saw a miracle that made me speechless with amazement. Macak’s back was a sheet of light and my hand produced a shower of sparks loud enough to be heard all over the house.” Curious, he asked his father what caused the sparks. Puzzled at first, [his father] finally answered, “Well, this is nothing but electricity, the same thing you see through the trees in a storm.” His father’s answer, equating the sparks with lightning, fascinated the young boy. As Tesla continued to stroke Macak, he began to wonder, “Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back? It can only be God,” he concluded.”
― Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
[Nikola Tesla’s favorite childhood companion] was the family’s black cat, Macak. Macak followed young Nikola everywhere, and they spent many happy hours rolling on the grass.
It was Macak the cat who introduced Tesla to electricity on a dry winter evening. “As I stroked Macak’s back,” he recalled, “I saw a miracle that made me speechless with amazement. Macak’s back was a sheet of light and my hand produced a shower of sparks loud enough to be heard all over the house.” Curious, he asked his father what caused the sparks. Puzzled at first, [his father] finally answered, “Well, this is nothing but electricity, the same thing you see through the trees in a storm.” His father’s answer, equating the sparks with lightning, fascinated the young boy. As Tesla continued to stroke Macak, he began to wonder, “Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back? It can only be God,” he concluded.”
― Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
“Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back?”
― Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
― Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
“The practical lesson of all this,” Tesla said to Viereck in closing, “is to beware of concentration and be content with mediocre achievement.”87 Sadly, Tesla seems to have taken this lesson to heart, for after his breakdown in 1905 he never again attempted a project as ambitious as wireless power at Wardenclyffe. While he lived another thirty-eight years, his career as a bold innovator had come to an end. CHAPTER SIXTEEN VISIONARY TO THE END (1905–1943) Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”
― Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
― Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
“The moment you construct a device to carry into practice a crude idea you will find yourself inevitably engrossed with the details and defects of the apparatus.”
― Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
― Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
“how the entrepreneurs behind the massive hydroelectric project at Niagara had rejected Edison’s direct current (DC) system and instead chosen Tesla’s ideas for generating and transmitting electric power by employing multiphase AC.”
― Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
― Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
