John G Trump

The qoute in the video last night was at 8:15-8:53

After testing Van(de Graaff)'s wild ideas, that's in (apprentice?), for 6 weeks i decided they, they were plausible, and reasonable, and i abandoned the design of electric machinery, and began studying the insulation of high voltages in a vacuum, Van was very much interested in vacuum, and the accleration of heavy particles to high energies, and my theseis was on vacuum electrostatic engineering, that is, insulating, insulation of rotating electrostatic machines in a high vacuum.