Nikola Tesla Books
IN SEARCH OF NIKOLA TESLA I nodded and asked him, 'Could you tell me how you first got interested in Tesla?' 'Some time ago a young man called Tim Richardson came to see me. He was building a device based on one of Tesla's patents and he was having a few problems. He wanted to discuss it with me. That's how I began to look at the patents.' 'What was your reaction?" I asked. 'Well, as I said, they're interesting. I'm not really an expert on Tesla, I haven't the time, but I do think that there's something worthwhile in all this.' 'You mean, you think power transmission is possible?" 'Oh, I don't know about that,' Janischewski answered. I'm talking about the device itself. It's a very, very clever design. If you looked at it quickly you'd probably say that it could never work. I don't think that many engineers could sit down today and design a twenty million volt transformer.' I took a pen and some paper from my briefcase and began to take notes. Interior of the Long Island electric plant, showing a number of Tesla's devices (1902). 89
