"Tesla had his rooms in the laboratory on Houston Street darkened and a current was turned on invisibly. As the group ga[z]ed at this the apartment was filled with a terrific lightning display, with the snapping, crackling sound, displacing the reverberation of heaven's artillery, and all remarked the weird and awing effect of the exhibition....
His face lighting up and his spare figure vibrant with pride, Tesla announced, "I am producing an electrical disturbance of intense magnitude which by means of certain simple instruments can be felt and appreciated at any point of the globe without the aid or intervention of wires of any kind at all."
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