Chapter 159: Meeting With a Legendary Genius
Bruno returned to the German Reich shortly after his visit to the Kingdom of Romania, but he did not spend long there. He, after all, had other business to attend to across the Atlantic. While Bruno had long since been investing in a variety of businesses across the land, he had also personally sponsored many inventors.
One of whom he desperately wanted to fund was a true visionary, a man who, after his death and until the 1990s, went into a state of relative obscurity despite his contributions, which helped build the foundation of the modern world.
For years, Bruno had been trying to acquire the Serbian American's talents, but the man had eluded his attempts to do so, relying on the likes of American elites to fund his projects. By now, that money was starting to dry up, and Bruno saw this as an excellent opportunity to snatch the exceptional talent for his own ambitions.
Because of this, Bruno had finally decided to set sail across the Atlantic to Manhattan in an attempt to meet with the man in person and hopefully convince him to immigrate for a second time in his life, this time from the United States of America to the German Reich.
It was a tall task, but one Bruno was attempting, nonetheless. As he wholeheartedly believed, giving Nikola Tesla the funds he needed to bring his many designs to life would be an ultimate benefit to mankind in the long run.
Frankly speaking, Tesla was relying mostly on money from his patents at the moment, but those patents would be violated and infringed upon by U.S. corporations when the war broke out, and by the end of the war, he would be effectively bankrupt—or at least most certainly so in the years following its completion.
Bruno wanted to prevent this tragedy to scientific achievement from occurring by bringing Nikola Tesla back to the German Reich and giving him damn near unlimited funding in his pursuits. Hence, after a mere five days on board an ocean liner, Bruno arrived in the United States of America.
Because Bruno was of German stock and spoke damn near perfect English, he blended in quite well with the American population, walking through its streets and taking in the sights of the sleeping giant and its current progress as he made his way towards his ultimate goal: meeting with Nikola Tesla in one of his current offices based out of Manhattan.
Frankly speaking, when Bruno arrived at his ultimate destination, he was not the least bit surprised to find that Nikola Tesla was not the least bit pleased to see him. Bruno had been trying for years to get a meeting with the man, and for whatever reason, Tesla had kept eluding him.
Ultimately, Bruno had to finally petition for a meeting under a false identity to finally speak with Nikola Tesla, and in doing so, he had, of course, perturbed the man he was trying to coerce. Nevertheless, Bruno had a shameless smile as he introduced himself to a legendary scientist and engineer from his past life.