Nikola Tesla - in his own words
Nikola Tesla's window view in Manhattan, a photo I took from within his room in the Hotel New Yorker, where he lived. Tesla was neither hallucinating, mad, alone, poor, religious or a nationalist. Ever since he died on this day 81 years ago, nationalist from Balkans have fought over, claiming his to be their own. If anything, he was an American. To understand one of the world greatest geniuses, I recommend his own book (https://www.amazon.com/My-Inventions-Autobiography-Nikola-Tesla/dp/1684222060), not someone speaking on his behalf. Here are some quotes, relevant today as 134 years ago: "I was intended from my very birth for the clerical profession and this thought constantly opprest me. I was swayed by superstitious belief and lived in constant dread of the spirit of evil, of ghosts and ogres and other unholy monsters of the dark. Then, all at once, there came a tremendous change which altered the course of my whole existence. Of all things I liked books the best. But my har...