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Excerpt from Experiments With Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency: A Lecture Delivered Before the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London
The boy was early put to his books, and upon his father's removal to Gospic he spent four years in the public school, and later, three years in the Real School, as it is called. His escapades were such as most quickwitted boys go through, although be varied the programme on one oc casion by getting imprisoned in a remote mountain chapel rarely visited for service; and on another occasion by fall ing headlong into a huge kettle of boiling milk, just drawn from the paternal herds. A third curious episode was that connected with his efforts to ?y when, attempting to navigate the air with the aid of an old umbrella, he had, as might be expected, a very bad fall, and was laid up for six weeks.
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The boy was early put to his books, and upon his father's removal to Gospic he spent four years in the public school, and later, three years in the Real School, as it is called. His escapades were such as most quickwitted boys go through, although be varied the programme on one oc casion by getting imprisoned in a remote mountain chapel rarely visited for service; and on another occasion by fall ing headlong into a huge kettle of boiling milk, just drawn from the paternal herds. A third curious episode was that connected with his efforts to ?y when, attempting to navigate the air with the aid of an old umbrella, he had, as might be expected, a very bad fall, and was laid up for six weeks.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Nikola Tesla
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ISBN - 9780266621690
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Page Count - 162
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ISBN - 9781333269043
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
Page Count - 164
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