"These creatures were remarkably efficient, for once they were started they had no sense to stop and continued whirling for hours and hours....All went well until a strange boy came to the place. He was the son of a retired officer in the Austrian Army. That urchin ate May-bugs alive and enjoyed them as tho [sic] they were the finest blue-point oysters. That disgusting site terminated my endeavors in this promising field and I have never since been able to touch a May-bug or any other insect for that matter."
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Nikola Tesla My Inventions by Nikola Tesla, , p. 45
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