Pro Tesla

Your Winter 1992 issue is so interesting that it was difficult to know which article to read first—until I found Curt Wohleber’s “The Work of the World.” I cannot express enough appreciation to Mr. Wohleber and your magazine for bringing to the public an appreciation of Nikola Tesla, certainly one of the most underrated geniuses who ever lived.

I am a professional musician with fifty-eight students. My residence is equipped with pianos, a large pipe organ, and a three-quarters-of-a-millionvolt Tesla coil. My young students delight in operating it and producing lightning displays. I take the time to explain just what Tesla did and how they benefit from his AC polyphase system, and what it has meant to the world. In addition, I have written a fivemovement symphonic suite for organ based on five events in Tesla’s life.

Raymond A. Brubacher
Olney, Md.