Nikola Tesla
“When I made the discovery of the rotating magnetic field I was a very young man. The revelation came after years of concentrated thought and it was my first great thrill.
“It was not only a valuable discovery, capable of extensive practical applications. It was a revelation of new forces and new phenomena unknown to science before.
“No, I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable, designed merely as mechanical contraptions to deceive the eye and the ear. A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.”
–Nikola Tesla
“A Famous Prophet of Science Looks Into the Future.” By Alden P. Armagnac. Popular Science Monthly, November, 1928.
