"These inventions are what I crave," Tesla recalled. "Archimedes is my ideal. I admire the work of artists, but I think that art is just a shadow and a façade. And what about inventors -- I think the things they create for the world are tangible, tangible, real, and effective. ”

"I have never enjoyed such joy and happiness in my life. Thoughts flowed up in my heart like a spring, and the only difficulty was how quickly to hold on to them. ”

"The devices I came up with seemed to me to be real, and I knew every detail so well that even the tiniest signs of wear could not escape my eyes. I imagined with joy that the motor was spinning and turning...... When a natural hobby develops into a strong **, a person will run towards his purpose at an astonishing speed. When I invented the AC motor, I made several types of motors in less than two months, and several new styles of the complete system......"

Listening to Tesla's narration, Hu Shi's face showed a look of disbelief. He turned his head to look at Yang Shuoming and Liu Xiangyun, but he could see from their eyes that they could understand Tesla's words.

The morning light was hazy, and Tesla finally broke up with the guest. However, the lights in his lab continued to stay on for more than an hour.

After completing another experiment, Tesla locked the door and walked back to his room for a short rest.

Tesla didn't know that when he was working, Yang Shuoming and Liu Xiangyun did not go far, but looked at his laboratory from afar under the street lamp.

"Sure enough, as you said, he didn't rest so late."

Liu Xiangyun snuggled in Yang Shuoming's arms, she looked at him, her eyes flashed with a strange light.

"He's such a person, and it's estimated that he won't sleep for more than four hours today." Yang Shuoming hugged her and said softly.

"You're all the same, and you have less and less time to sleep."

"Then let's hurry." Yang Shuoming heard the resentment in her words, and hugged her tighter with a smile, "So that you can rest early." ”

Liu Xiangyun blushed and gently slapped his chest with her hand.

"Let's go." Yang Shuoming's gaze swept around and said.

The two snuggled forward with each other, and at this moment, in a corner where the moonlight could not shine, the two men glanced at each other, and each saw the bitter expression of the other.

"Lao Wang guessed correctly, the two of them are getting better."

"You just know."

"Looking at this posture, he didn't think about going home."

"I'm leaving early tomorrow morning, and if he goes home, he'll lose time."

"Okay, it won't be our class tomorrow anyway. Get through the evening and go back to get some good sleep. ”

"yes, he doesn't know where he's going tomorrow."

"Anyway, it's all inspections, and he's always worried that what he gets won't be implemented, so he has to watch it with his own eyes."

"So many people in our ministry are his 'eyes', and he doesn't have to be like this."

"Who's to say it isn't."

As the two men spoke, they hurried forward and chased after them.

When it was finally time to go to bed, Tesla reluctantly left his beloved laboratory, returned to the living room, and lay on the bed.

At this time, it was already late at night, and although Tesla had already laid down and closed his eyes, his thoughts could not be calmed down for a long time.

The experience of the past appeared in front of his eyes like a movie.

He remembers that in the middle of January 1900, when Tesla returned to New York, he believed that he had been at the forefront of a major revolutionary technology, applying for new patents for the registration of radio and the transmission of electricity, based on experiments he had conducted in Colorado.

His vision was to build a world radio centre with a radiotelephone network, synchronized time signals, stock market bulletins, pocket receivers, private communications, and radio news broadcasts.

He referred to these collectively as the "World Intelligence Transmission System."

His first patent after returning to New York was a method for increasing the intensity of electrical oscillations. The medium used in this method is liquidized air, through which the coil is cooled and its resistance reduced. In 1900 and 1901 he was also granted two other patents for buried transmission lines and for insulating them by freezing surrounding dielectrics, such as water. Another re-published patent relates to a "gas" coolant.

In his patent No. 685012, Tesla talked about supercooling the conductor to a temperature that greatly reduces its holding resistance, so that the conductor can minimize the consumption when conducting current.

But in that race for the championship of long-distance radio transmission, Marconi had the upper hand. During Tesla's absence of appearances, the world press trumpeted Marconi's achievements. He made some boring fusses in the United States, such as signaling the results of the Long Island Strait speedboat race, which Tesla scoffed at. He has publicly announced a plan to take on a robotic autonomous ship at the Paris Exposition via a radio control system from his office in Manhattan!

But it was during this period that his bank accounts were in a rather urgent situation. He spent a total of $100,000 over eight months in Colorado.

Tesla, in search of new development funding, wrote an article for Century magazine about the future of energy and technology. He racked his brains to write this article, and finally chose a title, "The Growing Problem of Human Energy," which was published in June 1900. The article caused quite a stir. Part of the reason for this is due to the photos attached to the article.

Tesla's grand plans aren't just a fantasy. When Tesla was still in Colorado, he had already commissioned Sherver and an engineering assistant to closely supervise the assembly of oscillators and other equipment at his New York facility. Secrecy was carried out as usual. He had just returned to New York and immediately had a conversation with George? Westinghouse approached because he knew that Westinghouse's engineers would be able to provide the machines he needed.

He told Westinghouse that his experiments in Colorado had proved that it was feasible to establish telegraph communications anywhere on the planet based on the machines he had perfected. He had to install a set of at least 300 hp engines and DC generators on each side of the Atlantic, which were expensive.

According to his vision, the establishment of such a communication is only the first step. It prepares for the next more important step, which is the delivery of electricity. However, the scale of the project to transmit electricity was much larger and more expensive, so he had to start with communication in order to gain the trust of investors. He asked Westinghouse to lend him $6,000 as security over his UK royalties.

Westinghouse asked Tesla to take the train from New York to Pittsburgh so that the two could talk about it from start to finish in his private "royal charter." Tesla told Westinghouse in the car that his machine would be more powerful than the Atlantic Submarine Cable, both in terms of speed and the amount of information sent at the same time. He advised Westinghouse to retain ownership of any machines he supplied and to participate in the ventured venture to some extent. However, Westinghouse, who had experienced the bitterness of the difficult financial world, told Tesla to seek money from capitalists who kept their money and wanted to find a chance to become famous.

Tesla later found such a person who had the potential to fund him, and this was Henry? Hevermeer. This man was nicknamed the "Sultan of Sugar," because he single-handedly monopolized the entire sugar refining industry. Tesla was generous, and whether he had money or not, he sent an envoy to Newport, Rhode Island, to bring an expensive sapphire ring as a wedding gift to the Sultan. But his sincerity and respect were not immediately rewarded.

Tesla has also revealed his plans for the World System to others, and he has been in extreme pain because of the successive setbacks. He was dismayed to see an advertisement in the newspaper: "There is a way to make money...... Marconi stock is better than your own hands, custody you earn 100% to 1000% more money! (At that time, the shares of the British company Marconi used to sell for $3, but now they have risen to $22) and read the last few sentences of the advertisement, he was even more furious: "The Marconi system was affected by Andrew? Carnegie and Thomas? Edison's praise for these celebrities has been praised by the press all over the world. Edison, Marconi and Pupin were both consulting engineers at the Marconi Company. ”

Tesla had always believed that Marconi must have infringed his patents, and he was ready to file a lawsuit against Marconi. But now he understood - the three of them were in a mess and colluded to deceive him into his radio invention!

And Tesla, which is in financial trouble, is no longer able to fight a protracted lawsuit at this time.

But what made Tesla happy was that many people who read his articles in Century magazine deeply appreciated his vision. One of those characters is Pierponte? Morgan.

Morgan made an appointment with Tesla to discuss the world system with him. Tesla didn't treat Westinghouse like this time, and he didn't want to go into the technical details from the bottom of his heart, and he didn't feel the need to distract the financier by talking too much about the technical issues. He, in turn, talks a lot about money and power. He told Morgan about the plan to broadcast all wavelength channels from a single station. In this field, other people's ideas are very limited, and they only see the transmission between two points, such as radio transmission between ships and land, between the two sides of the ocean, while Tesla is talking about broadcasting to the world. Morgan was intrigued.

After the meeting, Tesla then wrote a letter to Morgan on November 26, 1900, stating directly what he was going to take. He said he had already spread over nearly 700 miles and could make equipment for telegraph communications across the Atlantic (and, if needed, across the Pacific). He can work selectively with many sets of equipment without interfering with each other, and can keep communications absolutely secret. He also added that he already had all the necessary patents and was ready to sign the agreement.

He proposed that any company established in the future should use his name and gave an estimate of the cost of transmission equipment; $100,000 for transatlantic and $250,000 for transpacific. It takes 6 to 8 months to build transatlantic transmission equipment and one year to build transpacific transmission equipment.

He did not mention the issue of wireless power transmission to Morgan, not because he had given up on the idea, but because it was prudent. Because the mention of delivering electricity is likely to make the banker recoup his existing investment. In any case, Mr. Morgan would never have had the kindness to give electricity to a penny Zulu or Indian in the future.

Morgan wrote back that he agreed to give Tesla $150,000. But he had said it first, and he had stopped there. But Morgan offered only a fraction of what was needed, and the United States was struggling with frenzied inflation at a time, which made Tesla's money lose a lot of money all at once. Still, Tesla was ecstatic.

But the relationship between the two of them, of which Morgan was undoubtedly well aware, immediately became that of that between a servant and a king. Morgan was a "great enlightened man." Tesla's work, "will make your name loud and loud in the world." You will soon see that not only am I deeply grateful for your noble deeds, but that I have been able to bring to life your charitable investment, and that it is worth a hundred times more than the amount you generously and generously gave to me......"

Unlike Rockefeller, Morgan was not interested in philanthropy, and after reading the letter, he sent a draft agreement to Tesla, and asked Tesla to sign and transfer 51 percent of his interest in various radio patents to Morgan himself as a loan deposit.

Seeing that the funds were secured, Tesla set out to find a plot of land to build the transmitter. Suffolk County Land Corporation Chairman and Manager James ? Worden has 2,000 acres of land on Long Island, and he promised to give Tesla 200 acres of Schoram alone. This small plot of land is more secluded, overgrown with trees, close to Jemingma? Randal and George? Hedgeman has two farms, 65 miles from Brooklyn. Tesla was overjoyed and named the site "Wordenclifford" and saw in his mind that it would become one of the first industrial parks. This is because the world radio station employs 2,000 people, and the families of the workers live in the surrounding emerging areas.

In March 1901, Tesla went to Pittsburgh to order generators and transformers for Westinghouse. At the same time, he sent people to the coast in England to conduct surveys in order to find a suitable site on the other side of the Atlantic. Now he was too busy to think about the Paris Exposition, so the Exposition opened and closed, but he never saw the world-shaking exhibition of the inventor.

Tesla designed a tall tower with a huge copper electrode in the shape of a pie ring on top of it, which was 100 feet in diameter. Later, the electrode was changed to the shape of a giant mushroom crown. The tower is octagonal in shape, pre-mounted entirely on the ground with sorghum, and then hoisted onto a huge masonry building. However, the total height of this huge building was too high, which posed an anxious problem of wind resistance.

After careful consideration, Tesla fell back to its previous design, with the tower standing at 187 feet tall. The interior of the tower is a long steel shaft driven 120 feet deep into the ground. Around the axis is a planked shaft with a cross-sectional area of 12 square feet and a circular ladder to go up and down. The steel shaft is designed to be lifted upwards by air pressure until it touches the overhead platform. Conceptually and practically, "Wordencliffe" is an unprecedented milestone in the golden age of American electrical engineering.

Tesla was in a hurry to get the machine he had ordered, and Westinghouse sent someone to speed up the supervision. However, Morgan's money was delayed, forcing the inventor to find another way to build Wordencliffor. He moved his office to the Metropolitan Building in New York to open his eyes to the market.

He thought of a number of ways to make money, one of which was to invent a special induction motor, which was made by Westinghouse. But the problems are endless.

Much to Tesla's disappointment, the American political axe did not intend to order his radio controls to strengthen the coastal defenses. As 1901 drew to a close, the world's press rushed to report the news that on December 12, Marconi had sent the signal of the letter "S" from Cornwall across the Atlantic to Newfoundland. Morgan and many others were astonished: Marconi had already sent the signal, and Tesla's kind of massive equipment was not necessary.

Unbeknownst to them, Marconi had exploited Tesla's 645576 basic radio patent. The patent was registered in 1897 and published on March 20, 1900. No wonder Tesin rose up and denounced this method of ruining his fortune and reputation. But at the time, most scientists still found radio technology mysterious, let alone the average investment banker.

Tesla, as angry as he is, doesn't complain. He wastes no time, and his eyes are fixed on the majestic and fascinating engineering that is rising from the farmland of Long Island. He lives in a private house near the construction site and takes care of the project himself.

The log poles of the "Tower of Miracles" soared higher and higher, and Tesla relentlessly forced himself and a large group of employees to catch up. He sent money to Germany, asked the radio engineer Fritz? Lowenstein returned to the United States, and soon Lowenstein was part of the construction team of "Wordencliffe". Another famous engineer who worked for Edison, Otis? Bont also came to help build the laboratory.

(To be continued)