Nikola Tesla Books
CHAPTER TEN Early the following week, I was on a morning flight from Ottawa to Toronto. As I reclined in my seat after take-off, I began to review my thoughts about Nikola Tesla yet again. In a couple of hours I would be speaking to the electrical engineer who had helped Tim Richardson in the planning stages of his Tesla transmitter. From my conversation with Golka, it appeared that the tower actually produced the high voltages Tesla claimed. But did this imply that the tower could also transmit energy? As far as I could see broadcast power was as much a problem as it had ever been. Energy dissipation was the main objection and the idea of containment by charged layers in the upper atmosphere did not seem promising. My thoughts were interrupted by a voice telling me that we would soon be landing at Toronto airport. Forty minutes later, after the business of finding a cab, I was outside the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Toronto. I walked up the main steps and saw Janischewski's name listed with other staff members on a board inside the entrance. When I reached his office I found him engaged in a telephone discussion with a colleague in California. As I sat down to wait I noticed his degrees and awards framed on the wall. Janischewski appeared to be a man with a respected reputation in the scientific community. At last the phone call came to an end and he stood up and apologized for the delay. 'It's Dr Peat for the NRC, isn't it?' 'Yes,' I replied. 'I'm looking into some proposals made by a man called Nikola Tesla and I was wondering if you would be able to help me?" Janischewski smiled. 'I'll try to. You see, I've read some of Tesla's papers and I've found them all very interesting. He was so much ahead of his time.' 88
