Image: young Nikola Tesla
( Nikola Tesla's autobiography "My Life")
( Nikola Tesla's autobiography "My Life")
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Tesla was born to Serbian Parents of five children in Austro-Hungarian Empire. Tesla's father was a gifted writer and poet. His favorite author was Mark Twain with whom he later became close friends with. On the other hand, Tesla's mother was a hard working woman of many talents
who spoke four languages and created appliances to help with home and farm responsibilities. One of these was a mechanical eggbeater. Tesla attributed all of his inventive
instincts to his mother.
Nikola Tesla's childhood home, now a museum |