Senin, 08 Januari 2018

The Wizard Who Electrified the World

In June 1884, a fateful meeting took place in an office in a brownstone on Manhattan’s lower Fifth Avenue. The office belonged to that greatest of American inventors, Thomas Alva Edison, who already was a celebrity for creating the phonograph and the incandescent light bulb. His guest was an unknown Serbian immigrant named Nikola Tesla, …

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