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In the course of the build-up to the Second World War, government spending in military affairs, most especially in the US, reached heights barely imaginable just a few decades previously. But now however, completely new areas of physics were being opened up: electricity and magnetism, including the nuclear sciences. Massive funding was granted to explore these strange new realms like never before, with projects established of almost an esoteric nature. The aim was to discover anything that could lead to military advantage over the enemy, and to actively develop new technological capabilities as could prove decisive in determining who ultimately would win the war. A whole new world of secret weapons projects was thus born.
The Two Phase Alternating Current induction motor. J.P. Morgan had built one of the largest financial empires of the century.