{"id":2315,"date":"2021-01-18T05:06:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T12:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2022-11-18T11:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T18:30:33","slug":"eccentric-facts-about-nikola-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/stories\/eccentric-facts-about-nikola-tesla\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Eccentric Facts About Nikola Tesla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1. Nikola Tesla was an inventor, physicist and engineer. One of his greatest inventions was alternating current (AC), the means of electricity that powers civilization and is crucial\u00a0for lighting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">2. Tesla, who credited reading author Mark Twain\u2019s writing\u00a0for his recovery from serious illness, became very good friends\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevintagenews.com\/2019\/01\/11\/twain-and-tesla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Twain<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\n<!---This block adds an image of Tesla to latest posts sideBar--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6195\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tesla_radio_1920s.jpg\" class=\"mfp-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6195 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tesla_radio_1920s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"699\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image is a workaround for for the &#8216;latest post&#8217; thumbnail, it will not appear in the post.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<style>#attachment_6195{display:none;}<\/style>\n<p><!---This block adds an image of Tesla to latest posts sideBar--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6183\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/frontispiece_AMTv2_kitten-copy-712x1024.jpg\" class=\"mfp-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6183 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/frontispiece_AMTv2_kitten-copy-712x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"699\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Twain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">3. Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/tesla\/ll\/ll_america.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edison offered Tesla $50,000<\/a> to improve his existing system of generating electricity. Tesla succeeded\u2014but Edison explained that he had just been joking. Tesla promptly quit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">4. Tesla may have suffered from what is known today as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), according to some who <a href=\"https:\/\/iocdf.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/06\/tesla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detailed his<\/a> obsessive rituals and superstitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">5. Tesla did not marry.\u00a0According to an entry on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikola_Tesla#Relationships\">Wikipedia<\/a>, Tesla once said that he felt he could never be worthy enough for a woman.\u00a0He devoted himself to studying science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">6. Tesla\u00a0spoke eight languages and may have had a photographic memory.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4357\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla_circa_1890.jpeg\" class=\"mfp-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4357 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla_circa_1890.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"643\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=480\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla_circa_1890.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=299\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Tesla_circa_1890.jpeg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikola Tesla. 1880.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">7. Tesla\u2019s AC conflicted with Edison\u2019s direct current (DC), which required power plants to be constructed within every square mile, making DC inefficient compared to AC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">8. Edison held ghoulish public exhibitions of electrocutions of animals to demonstrate that AC was too dangerous to use (this is about Edison, but it relates to his rivalry with Tesla).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">9. Tesla\u00a0was 6 feet 4 inches tall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">10. Tesla, who believed that romantic intimacy would interfere with his research, once said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/story\/nikola-teslas-weird-obsession-with-pigeons\">he was in love with a white pigeon<\/a>.\u00a0Toward the end of his life, he recalled: \u201cI loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dovetesla.jpg\" class=\"mfp-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6184 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dovetesla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikola Tesla was an inventor, physicist and engineer. One of his greatest inventions was alternating current (AC), the means of electricity that powers civilization and is crucial for lighting. 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