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drew an unbounded sense of self-confidence; he could think and work his way to any goal he set. There was good reason for Tesla's self-assurance. He had just passed his twenty-seventh birthday. It seemed to him only yesterday that Prof. Poeschl had seemingly so completely vanquished him for saying…