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Priestley with his discovery of oxygen and Cavendish with his discovery of hydrogen - they were nevertheless unable to understand Lavoisier, and remained adherents of the phlogiston theory until the end of their lives, while the entire scientific world had already accepted Lavoisier's science.
Our most prominent contemporary representative of electrical engineering, Milan Vidmar, once stated:
We cannot place Tesla within the normal framework of a successful great engineer. Tesla is a poet of electrical engineering, an artist, if you will. Tesla was full of ideas, unable to perform the normal work of an engineer. His intuition was colossal, his insight into the secrets of nature terrifying... He arrived like a whirlwind, swept through the modern world, which struggled to follow him, rushing forward, oblivious to his surroundings, to ordinary people, who were slowly trudging along...
People often say that had Tesla not gone to America he would never have achieved what he did. This is true. But we must not forget that out of hundreds of millions of native Americans, not a single one could solve the problems that Tesla brought, problems that were, in principle, solved when he came to America as a young man under 28 years old.
Among the numerous honors and recognitions, it should be mentioned that Tesla was an honorary member of the Belgrade and Zagreb Academies and an honorary doctor of the Zagreb and Belgrade Universities.
In 1917, he was solemnly presented with the Edison Medal. On this occasion, a grand ceremony was held, attended by the elite of American society. When all the guests arrived, there was no celebrant. They searched for him everywhere in the building, in his hotel, until they found him in the square in front of the National Library - feeding pigeons.
