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interest ranks with Tesla's is Leonardo da Vinci. Some notes of Lee de Forest (father of the electronics industry) quote: "His (Tesla's) works are the greatest exciters to work and study - to read those chapters on higher vibratory forms, the intimate connection between light energy and electricity - fires one with ambition to emulate. It would make a genius of any man whose soul is not made of clay." It has been said that, "It is the task of the philosopher to contemplate man's position in the universe, it is the task of the engineer to improve it.â There is probably, then, no one to whom the term "Engineer" can be better applied than Nikola Tesla. Dr. Dennis P. Malone, Chairman Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering State University of New York at Buffalo and Chairman of the Scholarship Committee of the Tesla Memorial Society The original version of this paper was delivered as an address before the Niagara County Historical Society in Lockport, New York, on June 27, 1980. Nikola Tesla Stamp To Be Issued LACKAWANNA, N.Y. - A commemorative stamp honoring Nikola Tesla and three other inventors will be issued by the U.S. Postal Service. John A. Blatnik, a Slovenian by descent, who is a director on the Board of the Tesla Memorial Society, has been advised by the Postmaster General that the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee has taken positive action that Nikola Tesla and three other inventors, namely Edwin Howard Armstrong, Philo T. Fransworth and Charles P. Steinmetz, should be honored in 1983 with the issuance of a block of four commemoratives. The Tesla Memorial Society thanks all of you who have written to Washington, D.C., requesting a Tesla commemorative stamp. It goes to prove that sometimes all that is required to obtain what you want is just a wee bit of effortless effort on everybody's part. The purpose of the TMS, a non-profit organization, is to honor, cultivate, promote, foster, sponsor and commemorate the memory and ideals. of Nikola Tesla, an electrical engineer and scientific genius, a Yugoslav-American inventor who was the father of polyphase alternating current, by and through academic conferences, exhibits, speakers, scholarship awards and various cultural activities. Those who may be interested in receiving more information on the TMS or becoming a member, please write to Mr. Nicholas Kosanovich, Executive Secretary, U.S. TMS, 453 Martin Road, Lackawanna, New York, 14218, or to Dr. Vladislav A. Tomovic, Executive Secretary, Canada, TMS, Brock University, Department of Sociology, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada. Margaret Starcevic, Lodge 351, TMS Publicity Director ZajedniÄar 4/1/81 20
