. . . those who regularly subscribed to "Scientific American" magazine would have discovered a full-page article about an electrical engineer called Gustave Trouvé, translated from an article by Georges Dary in the French magazine "Electricité".

This was the first time that Monsieur Trouvé’s

works were presented in detail to the American

public, including Edison. The same year, a

syndicate of American speculators was set up to

exploit all the inventions of the new "French

Edison". Trouvé agreed on condition that he was

paid a retainer of 700 dollars per week until the

firm had assembled its capital; this income was 

paid for quite some time. But nothing ever came

of the project, since the president of the syndicate

committed suicide, having been ruined on the 

New York Stock Exchange. Since then, for

130 years, Trouvé has remained unknown to the

American public.