Mrs. Mary L. Christmas wrote: >Barbara: > >While this does not specifically answer your question, it >does address a related point. > >It is my recollection that Twain had stood on a vibrating >electrical device in Nikola Tesla's lab, not in Edison's. >(But perhaps he was a "glutton for punishment" and did this >in both places? ;-) ) > >Regards, > >Mary Leah Christmas This answers nobody's question and raises another. As it happens a friend of mine is working on a screenplay about Tesla. He recently contacted me for any information I had about Twain's association with the fabled scientist. Alas, I have found nothing except a passing reference in Paine's _Mark Twain a Biography_ . Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks, Barry Crimmins