Strange Man

No one can question the genius of the late Dr. Nikola Tesla, whose place in the history of the world is secure.

But to be a genius he chose to be alone. And alone he was, for while he had many admiring acquaintances, he seldom had a friend. After his mother, no woman ever entered his personal life up to his death January 7, 1943.

A strange man, indeed. Yet it was the man who, by his brilliant idea of a "rotating magnetic field," changed the face of the earth and the living habits of the struggling human race.

But he was not a man without a heart, for he never failed to show up in a New York City park daily to feed his best friends, hundreds of pigeons. And when illness prevented him from doing so he hired a Western Union messenger boy to make certain that the pigeons were fed.

Such were the ways of Dr. Tesla. Such are the ways of a true genius.