For a while I gave myself up eo the intense enjoyment of picturing maes and devising new forms. It was a mental state of happiness about as plete as I have ever known in life. Ideas came in an uninterrupted stream and the only difficulty I had was to hold them fast. The pieces of apparatus I ceived were to me absolutely real and tangible in every detail, even to the minute marks and signs of wear. I delighted in imagining the motors stantly running, for in this way they preseo mind''s eye a more fasating sight. When natural ination develops into a passionate desire, one advaowards his goal in seven-league boots. Ihan two months I evolved virtually all the types of motors and modifications of the system which are now identified with my erhaps, providential that the ies of existenanded a temporary halt to this ing activity of the mind.
I came to Budapest prompted by a premature report ing the telephoerprise and, as irony of fate willed it, I had to accept a position as draftsman in the tral Telegraph Office of the Hungarian Gover at a salary which I deem it my privilege not to disclose! Fortunately, I soon woerest of the Ior-in-Chief and was thereafter employed on calculations, designs aimates in e with new installations, until the Telephone Exge was started, when I took charge of the same. The knowledge and practical experience I gained in the course of this work was most valuable and the employment gave me ample opportunities for the exercise of my iive faculties. I made several improvements in the tral Station apparatus and perfected a telephoer or amplifier which was never patented or publicly described but would be creditable to me even today. In reition of my effit assistahe anizer of the uaking, Mr. Puskas, upon disposing of his business in Budapest, offered me a position in Paris which I gladly accepted.
I never fet the deep impression that magic city produy mind. For several days after my arrival I roamed thru the streets in utter bewilderment of the new spectacle. The attras were many and irresistible, but, alas, the ine ent as soon as received. When Mr. Puskas asked me how I was getting along in the new sphere, I described the situation accurately iatement that "the last twenty-nine days of the month are the toughest!" I led a rather strenuous life in what would now be termed "Rooseveltian fashion." Every m, regardless of weather, I would go from the Boulevard St. Marcel, where I resided, to a bathing house on the Seine, pluo the water, loop the circuit twenty-seven times and then walk an hour to reach Ivry, where the pany''s factory was located. There I would have a woodchopper''s breakfast at half-past seven o''clod then eagerly await the lunch hour, in the meanwhile crag hard nuts for the Manager of the Works, Mr. Charles Batchellor, who was an intimate friend and assistant of Edison. Here I was thrown in tact with a few Ameris who fairly fell in love with me because of my profi billiards. To these men I explained my iion and one of them, Mr. D. ingham, Foreman of the Meical Department, offered to form a stopany. The proposal seemed to me ical ireme. I did not have the fai ception of what that meant except that it was an Ameri way of doing things. Nothing came of it, however, and during the few months I had to travel from oo another pla Frand Germany to cure the ills of the power plants. On my return to Paris I submitted to one of the administrators of the pany, Mr. Rau, a plan for improving their dynam