Nikola Tesla · every age

What was Nikola Tesla doing at 29?

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

1. c. 1886

   Investors dropped him; he dug ditches for a day

   He had signed his first US patents over to the company for stock and lost them.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

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