Nikola Tesla · every age

What was Nikola Tesla doing at 16?

Arrived in America broke at 28, left the world AC power

1. c. 1873

   Sick with cholera for nine months at 17

   His father promised to let him study engineering if he pulled through.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

Portrait: Photo: Unknown, c. 1890, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source