，他相信该公司曾许诺他，如果能够解决斯特拉斯堡火车站谜一样的难题，就会给他一笔奖励。然而，他的收获就是见识了公司的官僚主义，那些管事的一个推另一个地说别人才有权决定。“在好几次来回的‘推来推去’之后”，气愤的特斯拉终于得出结论，“我总算明白了，想拿他们的奖金，简直就是异想天开。”
查尔斯·巴彻勒（Charles Batchelor）是爱迪生最亲密的顾问，也是一位大师级的电气专家和爱迪生公司法国分公司的总经理，他随后邀请特斯拉到纽约拜访“门罗公园奇才”，改进正在爱迪生机器工厂进行开发的发电机。由于欧洲缺乏更多有助于推动其交流电研究的选择余地，特斯拉决定在这片“遍地黄金的土地”上碰碰运气。
蒂沃达尔·普斯卡什鼓励特斯拉转战美国，并给自己的朋友爱迪生写了一封信，信中说道：“我认识两位伟大的人物，一位是您，另一位就是这个年轻人。”
Edmund Morris, “Edison Illuminated: The Seventh Volume of Thomas Edison’s Papers,” New York Times Sunday Book Review, March 23, 2012.
Tesla, My Inventions, 33– 34.
Tesla, “An Autobiographical Sketch.”
Dragislav Petkovich, “A Visit to Nikola Tesla,” Politicka, April 27, 1927.
Tesla, My Inventions, 60– 61.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid., 59.
Ibid.
Ibid., 41.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14591/14591- h/14591- h.htm.
Tesla, My Inventions, 61.
O’Neill, Prodigal Genius, 49.
Ibid.
Wisehart, “Making Your Imagination Work for You.”
Alden P. Armagnac, “A Famous Prophet of Science Looks Into the Future,” Popular Science Monthly, November 1928.
Seifer, Wizard.
Carlson, Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, 54–55.
Tesla, My Inventions, 73.
Ibid., 35.
Szigeti, 1889 deposition.
“Nikola Tesla and His Wonderful Discoveries,” The Electrical World, April 29, 1893.
1915 Biographical Sketch, A198.
Ibid.
Tesla, My Inventions, 7.
Ibid., 65.
Silvanus R. Thompson, Poly-phase Electric Currents (New York: American Technical Book Company, 1897), 96–97.
“Sweeping Decision of the Tesla Patents,” Electrical Review, September 19, 1900, 288–91.
Galileo Ferraris, “Electromagnetic Rotations with an Alternating Current,” Electrician, 36 (1895), 360–75.
Andreas Bluhm and Louise Lippincott, Light! The Industrial Age 1750–1900 (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000), 31.
Tesla, My Inventions, 38.
Seifer, Wizard, 28.
Nikola Tesla, Motor Testimony, 189–90, 274–75.
Ibid., 220.
Tesla, My Inventions, 39.
Kenneth Swezey, “Nikola Tesla: Wonder Man of the New Wonder World,” Psychology Magazine, October 1927.
Tesla, My Inventions, 42.
Ibid., 70.
Tesla, Motor Testimony
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