"The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
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"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
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Nikola Tesla
1856 – 1943
serbisch-amerikanischer Elektroingenieur und Erfinder
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