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“It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.”

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This treasury includes Tesla's patents, articles, and correspondence, offering a deep insight into his work and ideas in the fields of electricity, wireless communication, and other scientific endeavors. more

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Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856 - January 7, 1943) was a renowned inventor and engineer from Croatia, who later moved to the United States. He is best known for his significant contributions to the fields of electrical transmission and wireless communication. more

“There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb.”

People Ifs Whole Might Would Be Young Humanity Cases Achieve Illusion Ideals Exciting Deeds Fortunate Fulfilled Behalf Delighted

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“We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true.”

Loss Views Effort Tears Resources March Devastation Time Effort

Book:The Nikola Tesla Treasury

Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury

“It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.”

World Individual Messages Around The World Transmit Wireless

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“Nature may reach the same result in many ways.”

Way May Results

Book:The Illustrated Tesla

Source: The Illustrated Tesla

“Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.”

Men Littles Doe Has Beens Made Values Mankind Easier Discovery Currents Experiments Enabling New Discoveries Great Scientist New Inventions Easier Life

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“I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.”

Currents Disappear Passages Electric Old Fashioned Lamps Brightness Electric Current

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“I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results.”

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Book:Nikola Tesla on His Work with Alternating Currents and Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and Transmission of Power: An Extended Interview

Source: Nikola Tesla on His Work with Alternating Currents and Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and Transmission of Power: An Extended Interview

“Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.”

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Book:The Nikola Tesla Treasury

Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury

“In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.”

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