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poet, Jovan Jovanovic-Zmaj (Zmaj-Dragon, Ed.) At the banquet held in his honor on May 21, 1892, he stated:
There is something within me that may be an illusion, as often happens with young, enthusiastic people, but if I am fortunate enough to realize at least some of my ideals, it will be a benefaction to all humanity. If these hopes of mine are fulfilled, my sweetest thought will be that it was the work of a Serb.
After that, he also stopped in Zagreb, where on May 25 he delivered a lecture on the construction of an electric power plant in Zagreb. On that occasion, he naturally advocated alternating current, which could be obtained from the Plitvice Lakes, although many waterfalls would have to be destroyed. He proposed the construction of an electric tram powered by accumulator batteries. From Zagreb he traveled to Varazdin to visit his uncle Paja, and then, via Budapest, returned to America.
After returning to America, he delivered the previously mentioned lectures in Philadelphia and St. Louis. Regarding these lectures, the New York Herald, in its issue of April 23, 1893, published an extensive report in which, among other things, it stated:
Scientists, who are not lavish in their praise, call Nikola Tesla the greatest living electrician. At a recent ceremony, some spoke his name with a certain reverence, as that of a man who holds in his hands an almost magical power over the greatest secrets of nature.
In 1893, during the World's Fair in Chicago, Tesla was at the height of his fame and success. That year, the Westinghouse company published Tesla's patents in a book entitled "Patents for the Transmission of Electrical Power: Tesla's Polyphase System," in which the significance of Tesla's inventions and discoveries was presented and
