One Thing Saved by Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla has lost many months of labor and research, but he still has his eulogist, Colonel Patton, late of the United States army — Lieutenant Patton in the Army Register, but Colonel by the permission of his friends and himself. Before the Colonel became the warm friend, admirer and champion of the "original electrical investigator," as we should be allowed to call Nikola Tesla, he was engaged in the ardent pursuit of Indian civilization in the far West. It is the good lot of some men to have worshipers. But for Colonel Patton it is doubtful if Nikola Tesla would ever have been recognized by the world as the inventor of the rotating magnetic field. The inventor has suffered an irretrievable loss, a loss that cannot be measured by dollars and cents. He is one of the geniuses of this age. He stands besides Thomas Edison, the renowned electrician; Professor Elihu Thomson, electrician of the Thomson-Houston Electrical Company; Charles F. Brush of the Brush Electrical Company; Gardiner C. Sims and Professor Alexander Graham Bell.