Surprising facts about Nikola Tesla

𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻’𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗺 – as a student, Tesla was literally unbelievably good at math. He could do complex problems in his head so fast and so accurately, his teachers accused him of cheating. This wasn’t Tesla’s only run-in with his professors, either. Throughout his life, he often clashed with certain teachers over their ideas and the way they taught classes.⁣

𝗛𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 – Tesla was a natural-born genius. He had an eidetic memory, also known as a photographic memory, and could recall things he had seen once with exquisite detail. He could even memorize entire books with ease, and knew an incredible eight languages.⁣

𝗛𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗫-𝗥𝗮𝘆𝘀 – though he suffered other disappointing losses, Tesla might have been the first person to ever take an X-ray, albeit accidentally. Tesla was tinkering around with a cathode tube when he captured the image. Amazingly, this happened before people even knew what X-rays were. Just weeks later, Wilhelm Rontgen announced his X-ray “discovery.”⁣

𝗛𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰 – he slept a measly two hours every night, and spent most of his waking time working in his lab. At one point, he was on such a productive streak with his inventions, he worked straight through for a whopping 84 hours.

𝗛𝗲’𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗡𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 – most people don’t know this, but Tesla was involved in the effort to harness the electrical power of the famed Niagara Falls. Edward Dean Adams of the Niagara Falls Cataract Construction Company approached Tesla and asked him what system could best transmit the Falls’ raw power. Tesla’s answer? Two-phase alternating current, of course.⁣

𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚: 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚.𝙘𝙤𝙢

𝗕𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁: his work inspired the creation of the BioCharger!