The Westinghouse Company Secures the Tesla Motor

In the Pittsburgh Post of recent date, appears the following notice, which, after making due allowance for the Pittsburgh reporter’s enthusiasm, evidently means that the progressive Westinghouse Electric Company has promptly realized the value of the work of the talented young inventor and experimenter, Mr. Nikola Tesla:

“It is safe to say that the Westinghouse Electric Company has a gold mine in its new electric motor. The public, even the electric public, has not yet reached a realization of the importance of the invention. The motor was invented by Nikola Tesla, a native of Lika, a town on the border line of Austria and Hungary. He was educated in Austria, and graduated as a civil engineer. Electricity soon claimed his entire attention, and now, though apparently less than 30 years of age, he has a very wide reputation as an electrician. The Westinghouse has contracted for his patents on the new motor, and he has been in the city several weeks proving all he claims for his invention. When the company is satisfied, the contracts will be signed.”