Nikola Tesla
continued....
There was a two-week period where he simply
vanished. No one could find him. Kolman Czito, his trusted technical foreman
and machinist feared for Tesla's life. Katherine Underwood Johnson was
beside herself with anguish. She was the wife of a close friend, the only
real love of Tesla's life. The fire was meant to kill. It was a message as
clear as anyone would need. The assassination attempt failed to kill the
intended victim. It certainly did not kill his dreams.
Wherever he was for those two weeks, the dreams
were with him. But a part of Nikola Tesla died in the fire. It was the part,
which was tied to the past. His eyes on the future, Tesla developed his
discovery into a major technology, which the world seems to have forgotten.
Of all those who prayed and wept over Tesla's disappearance, one person was
no longer concerned. Never again would Anne need to be troubled by the
thought of Nikola Tesla. His love was already sealed. Tesla recovered from
the flames.
His subsequent discoveries and inventions
surpassed his former works for forty more years; special radiation
projectors, self-acting heat engines, power transmitters, remote control and
robotics, the "World Broadcast System", Beam Broadcast transmitters, "Aetheric
reactors and Aetheric engines", cosmic ray motors, psychotronic television
... the list of astounding inventions is truly awe-inspiring. Tesla
demonstrated each of these systems for a select group of witnesses.
Furthermore, despite rumors of his public and
scientific demise, Tesla maintained two penthouse suites atop the Hotel New
Yorker in a time when such extravagance was otherwise unobtainable. One of
these suites was converted into a complete radio laboratory, several
accoutrements of which having been retrieved by antique radio enthusiasts.
Tesla was an indefatigable researcher. The biography of Nikola Tesla is
replete with truly mysterious designs and developments. But these are parts
of his biography, which must be told in other volumes.

Margaret Cheney has written an easy to read
"people book" about Nikola Tesla's life and times.