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Nikola Tesla: A Private Life
A Private Life
1942 · New Yorker Hotel, New York
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I am watched by maids, creditors, and memory alike, while the engines of the age run on currents I released and names I did not choose.
- from the opening of Nikola Tesla: A Private Life
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