Trafika Europe 8 - Romanian Holiday

Solenoid

met Tesla (who at the time was only a brand of a radio for me) and his solenoid was, as I understood, a continuation, an extension of the research of his master in electromagnetism. Back in Bucharest around 1925, he had lead a picaresque life, he had made some improvements to electrical trams, studied elevators, tried to produce electrical power through combinations of coils and magnets… He had built three or four industrial halls and even stepped on the stage of the circus, where he had had an amazing event (so he said) with voltaic arcs. “I produced electrical sparks of up to eight meters in length, yes sir, until the damn tent burned and they threw me out of there too.”

As a spicy item, he had met among tens and hundreds of other conquests (if you were to believe him), the famous Mitza the Cyclist, luxury coquette with a huge palace in Christian Tell, he had installed a dynamo on the front wheel of her Dorlay pink bicycle, most likely the first one on a bicycle in Romania. He had eventually been hired by an Austrian medical equipment company that produced mainly dentist chairs and other equipment for stomatology offices. He had built the house in those obviously most productive times of his life, when the famous solenoidwas fully up to speed and uncle Mikola was ready to conquer the world. He had lived in a hotel before, like the entire

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