Lindsey Graham

Now watch as I reverse it.

He flicks his wrist with a flourish, and you've strained to follow the lines he's furiously tracing in the dirt.

Isn't it beautiful, sublime?

I've solved the problem.

Now I just need to build the motor and give it to the world.

I mean, it's entirely new, right?

Are you sure it even can be built?

Oh, it can be.

I'll find a way.

Don't you see?

No more will men be slaves to hard tasks.

My motor will set them free.

It will do the work of the world.

You stare down at his drawing, trying to see his vision, but you don't grasp all the details.

But maybe that doesn't matter.

Because one thing is certain.

Your friend's eyes are blazing with a new sense of passion and purpose.

In early 1882, while suffering from overwork and exhaustion, Nikola Tesla received an invitation from his friend Anthony Seghetti to take a walk in a nearby park in Budapest.

Hoping the fresh air would help him regain his strength, Tesla agreed, and it was there in the park, after months of anguish, that the detail designed for his improved electric motor came to him in an instant.

As Tesla later recalled, he spontaneously recited some of his favorite lines from the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and As I uttered these inspiring words, the idea came like a flash of lightning, and in an instant the truth was revealed.