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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