*http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C05EFDC103AE533A25757C1A9659C94649ED7CF 14.3.1895 "MR. TESLA'S GREAT LOSS; All of the Electrician's Valuable Instruments Burned. WORK OF HALF A LIFETIME GONE Firemen Unable to Save His Laboratory in South Fifth Avenue -- He Loses $50,000; Gillis & Geoghegan $80,000." " I am in too much grief to talk. What can I say? The work of half my lifetime, very nearly; all my mechanical instruments and scientific apparatus, that it has taken years to perfect, swept away in a fire that lasted only an hour or two. How can I estimate the loss in mere dollars and cents? Everything is gone. I must begin over again." Und dies der Artikel über den Brand, der sein Labor vernichtete. Er war tatsächlich nicht versichtert. | *http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C05EFDC103AE533A25757C1A9659C94649ED7CF 14.3.1895 "MR. TESLA'S GREAT LOSS; All of the Electrician's Valuable Instruments Burned. WORK OF HALF A LIFETIME GONE Firemen Unable to Save His Laboratory in South Fifth Avenue -- He Loses $50,000; Gillis & Geoghegan $80,000." " I am in too much grief to talk. What can I say? The work of half my lifetime, very nearly; all my mechanical instruments and scientific apparatus, that it has taken years to perfect, swept away in a fire that lasted only an hour or two. How can I estimate the loss in mere dollars and cents? Everything is gone. I must begin over again." Und dies der Artikel über den Brand, der sein Labor vernichtete. Er war tatsächlich nicht versichtert. |