PBS: Tesla - Master of Lightning: Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency
I cannot find words to express how deeply I feel the honor of addressing some of the foremost thinkers of the present time, and so many able scientific men, engineers and electricians, of the country greatest in scientific achievements.
The results which I have the honor to present before such a gathering I cannot call my own. There are among you not a few who can lay better claim than myself on any feature of merit which this work may contain. I need not mention many names which are world-known -- names of those among you who are recognized as the leaders in this enchanting science; but one, at least, I must mention -- a name which could not bc omitted in a demonstration of this kind. It is a name associated with the most beautiful invention ever made: it is Crookes!
When I was at college, a good time ago; I read, in a translation (for then I was not familiar with you magnificent language), the description of his experiments on radiant matter. I read it only once in my life -- that time -- yet every detail about that charming work I can remember this day. Few are the books, let me say, which can make such an impression upon the mind of a student.
