Nikola Tesla Books
180 HIGH FREQUENCY APPARATUS is ample and certainly far more useful, while the latter use would justify the best aggregation of paraphernalia the capital of the owner would command. The salaries of feature vaudeville acts are, as a rule, commensurate with the pulling power and therefore the attractiveness of the act itself. Recognizing this, it is certainly wise to put forward every effort in an endeavor to make the true vaudeville act as big, as spectacular, and, to sum it up, as impressive as may be possible. The results justify the expenditure. In the construction of the apparatus the average reader is face to face with a problem. The manufacturer of standard apparatus will not even quote on this special material; the model shop wherein inventions are developed is too thorough and expensive; the average electrician knows nothing whatsoever about the apparatus in question; the typical machinist is worse than useless where complete assembly is concerned, as he is either too "rule of thumb" or too literal. The reader will wonder what he is to do. The Home Workshop.-The answer is to build a home workshop. It is cheaper in the beginning and in the end, and if the apparatus is worth having and building, it is deserving of a proper birth place. The tools required may be purchased for perhaps a quarter of the sum demanded by the combined carpenters, machinists, electricians and the rest of the vast army of mechanics, each one of whom does not know just what is desired, but is certain that he is capable of building it just the same. The construction is best done in a spacious room wherein the apparatus can also be set up and tested, and the act rehearsed. This means, of course, the installation of electric service. The room should have plenty of open floor space rather than spacious work benches, although these are quite as essential within reason. The tool equipment may consist of a fairly complete set of wood-working tools
