I looked on spellbound incapable of understanding what had happened. Suddenly a ball was seen to go beyond the limit, swelling to enormous proportions until it became as big as a house and plunged thundering into the valley below with a force that made the ground tremble. We amused ourselves by throwing balls which would roll down a certain distance, gathering more or less snow, and we tried to outdo one another in this sport.
The snow was quite deep and a warm southerly wind made it just suitable for our purpose. One winter’s day I managed to climb a steep mountain, in company with other boys. An incident of my youth may serve to illustrate. At that time he recalled the earth-trembling “quake” that brought police and ambulances rushing to the scene of his Houston Street laboratory while an experiment was in progress with one of his mechanical oscillators…”įrom My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola TeslaĬhapter 5-The Influences That Shape Our DestinyĪs I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies. “On the occasion of his annual birthday celebration interview by the press on Jin his suite at the Hotel New Yorker, Tesla announced a method of transmitting mechanical energy accurately with minimal loss over any terrestrial distance, including a related new means of communication and a method, he claimed, which would facilitate the unerring location of underground mineral deposits. That’s why soldiers break step crossing a bridge.” It would only be necessary to step up the vibrations of the machine to fit the natural vibration of the building and the building would come crashing down. Tesla at this point what he would need to destroy the Empire State Building and the doctor replied: “Vibration will do anything. We told the police it must have been an earthquake. Outside in the street there was pandemonium. The building would have been about our ears in another few minutes. I grabbed a hammer and broke the machine. “Suddenly all the heavy machinery in the place was flying around. I knew I was approaching the vibration of the steel building.
I asked my assistants where did the sound come from. I had one of my machines going and I wanted to see if I could get it in tune with the vibration of the building. Tesla stated, “I was experimenting with vibrations. Houston St., New York, in 1898, was the result of a little machine he was experimenting with at the time which”you could put in your overcoat pocket.” The bewildered newspapermen pounced upon this as at least one thing they could understand and Nikola Tesla, “the father of modern electricity” told what had happened as follows: Nikola Tesla revealed that an earthquake which drew police and ambulances to the region of his laboratory at 48 E. If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe.