93: Chapter 93: Hundreds of Media Outlets Witness the Miracle!

On the day of the conference, Rodney climbed out of bed early and shook his sleeping girlfriend vigorously: "Eliza, wake up! The time on the invitation is nine o'clock; we must leave early!"

Upon hearing this, Eliza, who had originally wanted to stay in bed, sprang up like a spring.

"I have to dig out the blue dress my mother gave me for my birthday!"

She frantically rummaged through the closet in a slightly neurotic manner. The two of them fussed from six in the morning until seven, finally getting themselves tidied up.

They grabbed their brand-new notebooks and cameras, rushed out of the newspaper office, and boarded the earliest tram, heading straight for Long Island.

Around 8:30 AM, when they arrived at the South Fork of Long Island, the scene was already packed with people.

The two carefully handed their invitation to the staff maintaining order and were then guided to the press section.

After sitting down, Rodney asked around, and he immediately gasped. Sitting to his left was a senior reporter from the New York branch of The Washington Post, to his right was the star writer for the Chicago Tribune, and behind them sat the editor-in-chief of the New York Daily Worker.

There were over a hundred mainstream media outlets from across the country gathered at the scene.

Their New York Art Newspaper was like an ugly duckling that had wandered into a pack of wolves in front of this group of media giants.

But even so, Rodney managed to hold his ground.

He tugged at his most respectable blue suit, sat up straight, and projected the aura of a reporter from a major newspaper.

However, his girlfriend and assistant, Eliza, was beside him, and her legs had already started trembling uncontrollably in such a grand setting.

At nine o'clock sharp.

When Lin Tian led Nikola Tesla and the core members of the Umbrella Laboratory Electronics Department onto the temporarily constructed high platform, the entire venue erupted with applause like a tidal wave.

Lin Tian walked to the microphone, pressed his hands down in a gesture to quiet the crowd, and spoke with a smile to the hundred media outlets below:

"Welcome, everyone, to Long Island, New York, for the Umbrella Laboratory's new technology press conference. I am your old friend, Bruce."

Clap, clap, clap!

The applause thundered again from below. Once the applause gradually subsided, Lin Tian's expression turned serious, and he dropped a bombshell directly:

"I invited everyone here today to witness a miracle together—transatlantic long-distance wireless telegraphy information transmission!"

"What?!"

The press section exploded in an instant, with exclamations rising one after another.

In this era, all telegraphs had to rely on physical wires for transmission. Even for communication between two nearby places in the same city, cables had to be laid along the way.

The reporters had indeed heard rumors about wireless research, and many who came to attend Bruce's press conference today thought it would at most be about achieving wireless communication within a city or across a region.

But who could have guessed that Lin Tian would launch such a massive bombshell right from the start?

Across the Atlantic?

Without any wires, sending signals directly to Europe? How is that possible?!

In the original historical trajectory, the father of radio, Marconi, completed the transatlantic wireless transmission experiment in 1901.

At that time, the more capable Tesla, due to a broken capital chain, failed to complete the Wardenclyffe Tower, regrettably missing out on this honor.

But in this space-time, because Lin Tian spent money without counting the cost, giving money when asked and people when asked, crazily pouring in resources, Tesla finished it a full eleven years early, turning this miracle into reality.

Looking at the faces filled with disbelief and suspicion below, Lin Tian stood on the stage, his expression calm and confident:

"That's right, transatlantic wireless telegraphy. Today, right under your noses, this technology will completely change the world."

Lin Tian raised his hand and pointed to the giant steel tower behind him, declaring loudly:

"Please witness this memorable day together, and please remember the name of this tower—Wardenclyffe Tower!"

As soon as his voice fell, the top of Wardenclyffe Tower suddenly sparked with dense blue electric arcs.

"My God!"

Rodney, who was holding his camera, exclaimed, his finger subconsciously pressing the shutter, instantly capturing the spectacular scene of the tower discharging electricity.

This image, full of futuristic technology, made him feel an artistic beauty he had never noticed before. The reporters from over a hundred newspaper agencies below were also deeply shocked by this scene.

In fact, Wardenclyffe Tower was not just a long-distance wireless transmission tower; it also possessed the function of wireless power transmission.

Simply put, it was like wireless charging for mobile phones in later generations.

But the black technology at the top was far more exaggerated than a hundred years later; even from hundreds of meters away, it could light up all the light bulbs on the ground out of thin air.

Lin Tian himself had not expected that Tesla could research such heaven-defying technology in America in 1890.

If it weren't for the unfair treatment in original history, this mustachioed Serbian genius's future achievements would absolutely not be inferior to Einstein's.

Subsequently, as weather reports from Lisbon, Portugal, and real-time updates from various European countries were transmitted one by one from the receiving room, the reporters below were completely convinced.

They understood that the era of long-distance wireless communication had truly arrived, and they were the witnesses of history.

Lin Tian turned to the side and introduced him grandly to the crowd below:

"This is the outstanding scientist who conquered long-distance wireless communication technology, Mr. Nikola Tesla!"

"Nikola was born in Smiljan, Austria, came to New York in 1884, and soon joined the Umbrella Laboratory, becoming my most trusted comrade-in-arms."

"So here, I officially announce that Mr. Nikola Tesla will permanently own 5% of the shares in the Lin Communications Telegraph Company!"

Boom!

The reporters below were so shocked that they all stood up.

Although they couldn't calculate how much this 5% share was worth right now, everyone knew that with the advent of wireless telegraphy, the connection between America and Europe would become unprecedentedly frequent.

In the past, sending a letter by steamship took several days; now, one could grasp the trends in Europe in seconds. The business opportunities hidden within this were unimaginably huge.

It could be said that with just this 5% share, Tesla would be guaranteed to become a super-rich man.

Tesla, on the high platform, looked at Lin Tian, his eyes full of gratitude.

When he joined the Umbrella Laboratory, although he signed a contract stating that all invention patents belonged to the laboratory, he never regretted it. Because Lin Tian gave him almost unlimited research funds and personnel support.

Compared to his experience working in the Edison Laboratory, where he was not valued and was insulted and scolded every day, what Lin Tian gave him was not just money, but respect.

Tesla secretly vowed in his heart that as long as Lin Tian continued to treat him this way, he was willing to dedicate his life to the Umbrella Laboratory.

What moved him even more was that not only did Lin Tian not steal his reputation as the "Father of Radio," but he also publicly gave him both the honor and the shares in front of the national media.

If it had been Edison as the boss, let alone giving him shares, it would be a stroke of luck if he didn't use his power to forcibly take the patents away.