Nikola Tesla's Mental Illness

Nikola Tesla, born July 9, 1856 in Smijan, Croatia, was a well known inventer and scientist. His parents, dad a Orthidox preist and mom a home inventer, had 4 other kids along with Tesla. As a kid, Tesla excelled in language and mathematics. However, Tesla suffered from a mental illness that caused him to black out and see objects that weren’t accually there. Most of his family had mental illnesses too, but that didn’t stop Tesla from following his dreams. When Tesla was 28, he got a job with Thomas Edison to work for him, and ultimately resined over an argument from the two. From there, he went on to get sponsered by the AK brown company, and started testing for his new eletric company. There, he started to gain a reputation and provided power for the first eletric fair in chicago, 1893. However, Tesla was lonley, and sometimes depressed. In january or 1943, Tesla died of a blood clot in his heart, alone in his hotel apartment.

He came to new york in 1884, and got to work. He has not been credited with some inventions, but gone to Edison. However, these scientist wnt there ways, and made tesla to colorado springs for expirements for his comany sponsered by the AK brown company. Here, he did expirements for his Tesla coil, and onece made a 12 million volt coil, enough to kill multiple people with one shock. Tesla also had been on police watch for his expirements, most hapining in the middle of the night, when he did most of his exppirements. A story of tesla by a man said that he felt “ the grond shake”by one of teslas expirements 100 feet away from where he was. Tesla also had amazing dedication, only sleeping 2 hours a day to do his expiriments. Tesla has inspired many scientist from after his time and is still inspiring people over 70 years after his