3. “Tall and thin – wire and
Tall
whipcord; the big nose of the
doer,
doer the deepest brilliant eyes
of the dreamer and the thinker;
the long delicate hands of the
artist.”
“About the wishes, Mr Tesla?”
Randolph Bedford
(1868-1941)
“I wish, and then I Australian poet,
think,
think and then I do.”
do novelist,
novelist short story
writer and Queensland
state politician.
4. “His great discovery of generation
and utilization of polyphase
alternating currents is one
triumph; his work has
revolutionised electrical science.
The Tesla transformer is a
wonderful development of the
induction coil; Tesla is the man
who devised the rotating
magnetic field and who
discovered the phenomena of
high frequency.”
Randolph Bedford
7. “Years later I built the first Teleautomaton –
a machine which would mechanically
represent me and respond to external
influence. It had motive power, organs for
local motion, directive organs and organs
sensitive to external stimuli. The form I
selected for my Teleautomaton was a boat.”
Nikola Tesla
9. “I have before me NIKOLA
TESLA’S project to erect a
wireless plant for a world system of
electric t
l t i transmission. It makes
i i k
possible not only instantaneous
and precise wireless transmission
of any kind of signals, massages
and characters to all parts of the
p
world, but also the interconnection
of existing telegraph, telephone
and other signal stations without
changing present equipment.”
Randolph Bedford
11. “Telegraphy and telephony are still
capable of great improvement; there
is to come picture transmission by
ordinary t l
di telegraphic methods. I thi k
hi th d think
of a typewriter electrically operated
by the human voice. Electrical
voice
application will revolutionise
municipal g
p government in the home.
We shall have everywhere smoke
destroyers, dust absorbers,
ozonizers, sterilizers of water,
i t ili f t
clothing and food; an accident
preventers in traffic ”
traffic.
Nikola Tesla
