The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century by Lomas Robert

Author:Lomas, Robert [Lomas, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science & Technical
ISBN: 0747275882
Publisher: QCS eBooks
Published: 2011-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

As he awoke, he worried about this strange vision but recalled that he had once seen a painting that had allegorically represented one of the seasons in the form of a cloud, with a group of angels who seemed to be floating in the air. That same image had appeared in his dream, but with his mother in centre of it. The music had come from the choir in the church nearby at the early mass of Easter morning. He was satisfied that he could explain the entire vision scientifically, but as he got out of bed a messenger arrived to say that his mother had just died.

The strain of being unable to do anything except watch her die, must have been enormous. Speaking at her funeral, he said: `She was a truly great woman, of rare skill, courage and fortitude, who had braved the storms of life and passed through many a trying experience. I must trace to my mother's influence whatever inventiveness I possess.'

After her funeral he collapsed and lost his memory. He had been testing his own electrical anaesthetic on himself and may have been using it as a sleep-inducing aid during times of stress. Because of his self-experiments, overwork writing lectures and the death of his mother, he had a breakdown.

As he recovered his health, his memory slowly returned, but he had become even more introspective. Friends said of him that he never quite left his world of engineering problems, often drawing sketches on the tablecloth while waiting for a meal or interrupting conversations to speak of experiments. Later, in an article entitled `My Inventions', he wrote:

Upon regaining my health, I began to formulate plans for the resumption of work in America . . . I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea . . . The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible; therefore I devoted the next few months to the study of this work. If we could produce electric effects of the required quality, this whole planet and the conditions of existence on it could be transformed . . . The consummation depended on our ability to develop electric forces of the order of those in nature.

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