Sunday, March 3, 2013

Tesla: man, myth, truth

Nikola Tesla was born July 10, 1856 in Croatia. He studied German religion and asthmatic in elemenry school. One myth states that he was born at midnight on a stormy night.

In 1870, he move to his aunts to attend a university, where his affinity for math and physics emerged. He graduated a year early because of this. His like of math, physics and engineering him create technologies and make discoveries.

In1873, he had cholara which kept him in bed for 9 months. He almost died a few times. He developed his obessive compulsive tendencies from this. Odd thing was he loved pigeons.