The Teslian - Vol. I, No. 9 Page 11

JOURNAL of the INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS, England

February, 1944; Vol. 91, Part I, No. 38
pp. 58-59.

"The Life and Work of Nikola Tesla" — An Address by Dr. A.P.M. Fleming, with comment by W. H. Eccles, at the Nikola Tesla Special Commemorative Meeting, November 25, 1943.

W. H. Eccles commented in part,..... "Tesla was born and went to school in Serbia, and, of course, spoke the Serbian language. He studied at the Technical College in Graz and spoke German. went to the University of Prague and spoke Magyar. He went to Paris and worked for two years in France and, I suppose, spoke French. He then went to New York and spoke English. It is surprising that in reading his English one does not realize that it was written by a foreigner. He obtained a grasp of English idiom and English style such as most of us strive after in vain all our lives. It all goes to show that he was a very exceptional person. He wrote a great deal of poetry in German, and the fact that he was a poet shows why his imagination entered into all he did. It was because of his imagination that he was able to conceive great schemes like polyphase engineering in such completeness. When to imagination we add ingenuity, energy and opportunity we get the great inventor......"