Coral Castle?
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:18 am
This was brought to my attention by a friend today: www.parascope.com/en/articles/coralCastle.htm
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Esmer wrote:I'm sure Loremaster can provide us with a logical explanation....
Upon his arrival to the United States, Nikola Tesla accepted a job with the Thomas Edison company. Tesla's work for Edison began with simple electrical engineering. Eventually Tesla earned the respect of Edison and offered to undertake a complete re-design of the Edison company's DC dynamos. After Tesla described the nature of the benefits from his proposed modifications, Edison offered him $50,000 if they were successfully completed. Tesla worked nearly a year to redesign them and gave the Edison company several enormously profitable new patents in the process. When Tesla inquired about the $50,000, Edison replied to him, "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor"and reneged on his agreement, offering a raise in Tesla's salary of $10 per week as a compromise - at which rate it would have taken almost 100 years to earn the money Edison had originally promised.
Tesla resigned on the spot.
In some accounts of the final confrontation, he didn't say a single word to Edison but simply turned his back on the inventor and walked off the premises.
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