Nikola Tesla: A Life From Beginning to End (Biographies of Innovators Book 1) by Hourly History

Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hourly History
Published: 2017-04-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Personal Life

“Seldom did one meet a scientist or engineer, who was also a poet, a philosopher, an appreciator of fine music, a linguist, and a connoisseur of fine food and drink.”

– Julian Hawthorne

Nikola Tesla never married. At 6 feet 2 inches tall, he was always a stylish, elegant man, and his weight stayed the same all through his life. He was a well-groomed gentleman and very disciplined in his daily life.

There was a thorough description given about him by Arthur Brisbane, who was a newspaper editor for the New York World:

“Nikola Tesla is almost the tallest, almost the thinnest and certainly the most serious man who goes to Delmonico's regularly . . . He has eyes set very far back in his head. They are rather light. I asked him how he could have such light eyes and be a Slav. He told me that his eyes were once much darker, but that using his mind a great deal had made them many shades lighter. I have often heard it said that using the brain makes the eyes lighter in color. Tesla's confirmation of the theory through his personal experience is important.

He is very thin, is more than six feet tall and weighs less than a hundred and forty pounds. He has very big hands. Many able men do – Lincoln is one instance. His thumbs are remarkably big, even for such big hands. They are extraordinarily big. This is a good sign. The thumb is the intellectual part of the hand. The apes have very small thumbs. Study them, and you will notice this.

Nikola Tesla has a head that spreads out at the top like a fan. His head is shaped like a wedge. His chin is as pointed as an icepick. His mouth is too small. His chin, though not weak, is not strong enough. His face cannot be studied and judged like the faces of other men, for he is not a worker in practical fields. He lives his life up in the top of his head, where ideas are born, and up there he has plenty of room. His hair is jet black and curly. He stoops – most men do when they have no peacock blood in them. He lives inside of himself. He takes a profound interest in his own work. He has that supply of self-love and self-confidence which usually goes with success. And he differs from most men who are written and talked about in the fact that he has something to tell.”

Tesla attributed his scientific abilities to his chastity. In his early years, Tesla believed women to be superior to men. That started to change when he began witnessing the many areas that women were starting to involve themselves in as the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth.

Tesla believed women were trying to compete with men and in so doing, were losing all of their feminine ways. In an interview with the Galveston Daily News in August 1924, Tesla

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