“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.”
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About this quote
Tesla is describing what it feels like to see an invention work after years of work on it, and he was speaking to an audience of engineers. The word he reaches for is thrill, which is not the vocabulary of a scientific paper.
Source: Statement to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1899