Nikola Tesla's Rather Peculiar Childhood and Oddities

In today's episode, Gilles Messier and Daven Hiskey do a deep dive into Nikola Tesla's childhood and many of his rather peculiar oddities.

In the mid-19th century, the Austrian Empire, which stretched for over a thousand miles (1600 km) from Italy to Ukraine, was a place of contradictions. The ruling patriarch, Minister of the Interior Baron Alexander von Bach, was on the one hand something of a despot, abolishing public trials, reducing the freedom of the press and imprisoning political opponents. Conversely, his rule also saw the relaxing of economic laws, the demise of internal custom duties and peasants freed from their feudal obligations.

It was during this time, in the small village of Smiljan, situated within the Empire’s military frontier (now modern-day Croatia) that Nikola Tesla was born on July 9th or 10th (with the confusion owing to the time at around midnight), 1856, the fourth of five children. Tesla’s father, Milutin, was a priest, and the family soon moved to nearby Gospić, where his parish was located.

From the beginning, Tesla was seemingly a rather brilliant child, though Tesla claims his father discouraged scientific academic pursuit, hoping Tesla would become a priest himself someday and doggedly stuck to this point. Even, according to Tesla, restricting his study, with Tesla partially attributing this to the death of his apparently brilliant older brother Dane, back when Tesla was 5 years old....

Author: Daven Hiskey
Hosts: Gilles Messier and Daven Hiskey
Producer: Caden Nielsen

0:00 Intro
9:30 Communicating with the Dead and Visions
20:00 Inventing In His Head
30:00 Conquering His Desires
34:30 Boiled Alive and Master Archer
42:00 A Superhuman Machine
50:40 A Vision of a Motor
55:00 Going to America
1:00:00 Meeting Edison and a Beginning Receive SMS online on sms24.me

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