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“Tall and thin – wire andTall and thin wire and whipcord; the big nose of the doer the deepest brilliant eyesdoer, the deepest brilliant eyes of the dreamer and the thinker; the long delicate hands of thethe long delicate hands of the artist.”

“About the wishes, Mr Tesla?”“About the wishes, Mr Tesla?”Randolph Bedford

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“His great discovery of generation and utilization of polyphase alternating currents is one triumph; his work has revolutionised electrical science. The Tesla transformer is a wonderful development of the induction coil; Tesla is the man who devised the rotating magnetic field and who discovered the phenomena of high frequency.”

Randolph Bedford

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“Years later I built the first Teleautomaton –a machine which would mechanically represent me and respond to external influence. It had motive power, organs for local motion, directive organs and organs sensitive to external stimuli. The form I selected for my Teleautomaton was a boat.”

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“I have before me NIKOLA TESLA’S project to erect a wireless plant for a world system of l t i t i i It kelectric transmission. It makes

possible not only instantaneous and precise wireless transmissionand precise wireless transmission of any kind of signals, massages and characters to all parts of the pworld, but also the interconnection of existing telegraph, telephone and other signal stations withoutand other signal stations without changing present equipment.”

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“Telegraphy and telephony are still capable of great improvement; there is to come picture transmission by

di t l hi th d I thi kordinary telegraphic methods. I think of a typewriter electrically operated by the human voice Electricalby the human voice. Electrical application will revolutionise municipal government in the home. p gWe shall have everywhere smoke destroyers, dust absorbers,

i t ili f tozonizers, sterilizers of water, clothing and food; an accident preventers in traffic ”preventers in traffic.

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