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By Nikola Tesla
As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.
- Source
- My Inventions (part of a series), April 1919 · p. 908
- Read at
- The Electrical Experimenter, April 1919 (Internet Archive scan of the original issue)
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From Tesla's autobiographical series "My Inventions" in The Electrical Experimenter, April 1919. He is describing the afternoon in the City Park in Budapest, reciting Goethe's Faust, when the idea of the rotating magnetic field and the alternating current motor came to him. The popular version starts at "The idea came"; the source has the opening words "As I uttered these inspiring words".