35 Interesting Facts about Nikola Tesla

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26AC current

AC current

Nikola Tesla was heavily influenced by Goethe's Faust, his favorite poem, and had actually memorized the entire text. It was while reciting a certain verse that he was struck with the epiphany that would lead to the idea of the rotating magnetic field and ultimately, AC current.


27. Nikola Tesla "squished his toes" one hundred times for each foot every night, saying that it "stimulated his brain cells."


28. Nikola Tesla shunned physical contact with other people, with a special aversion to touching hair. To avoid shaking hands with people he met, he lied that he had injured his hands in a laboratory accident.


29. Nikola Tesla held an interview in 1899 claiming everything is the light and that light preceded matter in the cosmic timeline.


30. Tesla invented the Tesla coil, a device essential to sending and receiving radio waves. But in 1895, a fire destroyed Tesla's lab as he prepared to send a radio signal approximately 50 miles (80 km) to West Point, New York. Marconi relied on Tesla’s work and won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1909.


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31Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

Nikola Tesla said Edison "had no hobby, cared for no amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene."


32. Nikola Tesla's words were the only negative ones in the special edition of the New York Times on Edison's life, published the day after he died.


33. He had a peculiar love of the number 3 and all numbers that could be divided by 3. His maids would deliver him 18 towels and he chose to stay in hotel room 207, both of which can be divided by 3.


34. After Nikola Tesla lost control of Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing, one of his many jobs included working as a ditch digger for $2/day.


35. In 1899, Nikola Tesla created lightning more than 100 feet in length that caused the entire city of Colorado Springs to lose power.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Why did our government fail to see his genius, or utilize his inventions, he created a free source of energy yet today we pay so much for it that it cripples the average person or they have to live without because of its exorbitant cost? Our government has taken and taken from us to the point where we the common people, who are not part of the Uber rich won’t be able to live unless we are given $ from our government even if we work full time jobs, yet most of our government officials are worth millions or hundreds of millions, some even billionaires.

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  2. Lamentablemente las personas cuando ven hacer algo que ellos no pueden se asustan y critican. A parte el egoísmo reinante que siempre a imperado, a hecho que olvidemos a esta mente brillante y recordemos a otros como Edison, capitalista de primera que por él y su avaricia es que hoy pagamos tanto por electricidad 💡, cuando Nikola Tesla nos la ofrecía sin ningún costo. Tesla es y será el mejor inventor. Aprendamos más de él y su genialidad.

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