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A Life Electric: The Story of Nikola Tesla Flashcards

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At the stroke of midnight on July 10, 1856, thunder clapped.

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Lightning flashed.

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And a baby boy was born.

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“He’ll be a child of the storm,” his nurse said.

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“No,” his mother replied. “A child of light.”

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He loved animals and never missed a day cradling and feeding his family’s chickens, roosters, pigeons, and geese.

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He had many playmates, but his best friend was a cat. The magnificent Macak.

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The magnificent Macak.

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His mother said, “Stop playing with the cat, he might start a fire.”

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His father said, “This is nothing but electricity, the same thing you see on the trees in a storm.”

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He wondered, is Nature a gigantic cat?

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If so, who strokes its back?

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He dreamt of flying like the pigeons and geese on his farm - so, he jumped off the roof of his barn holding only an old umbrella.

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His bones didn’t break, but he was bedbound for weeks.

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He remembered everything he read and soon carried whole volumes in his head.

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While the family slept, he made his own candles, stuffed towels in the cracks of his bedroom door to hide the light, and worked his way through his father’s library of books.

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His dream was to study electricity when he grew up, but his father expected him to follow in his footsteps - and become a priest.

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Everyone feared he was at death’s door.

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A puzzle he had thought about for years.

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A puzzle his university professor had said was impossible to solve.

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And he knew it was an invention that would soon power the world.

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So, he set sail across the Atlantic from Europe to America.

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When he arrived in New York, his pockets held: four pennies, some handwritten poems, notes for a flying machine invention, and a letter of introduction to Thomas Edison, the inventor of the first practical electric light bulb.

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The two men worked together briefly, but they disagreed about everything - especially about the future of electricity.

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On the fair’s opening day, thousands of visitors from around the world gathered.

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The president of the United States pressed a gold telegraph button that set the fairground’s electric machinery in motion.

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And for the first time in history, over a hundred thousand light bulbs lit up at once.

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Soon once-darkened homes, office buildings, and city streets were illuminated.

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The wheels of streetcars and electric trains now whirled, and factories hummed through the night.

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They called him the Wizard of Electricity.

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So, he gave away the rest of the rights to his invention.

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Even as he grew old, he didn’t stop memorizing poems by heart, or solving scientific equations in his head, or taking long daily walks up and down New York’s cobblestoned streets.

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He also never stopped loving animals.

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He never missed a day.

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“I’ve been feeding pigeons, thousands of them, for years; thousands of them, for who can tell,” he said.

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Before making a diagnosis, he would peer into each bird’s eyes, then inspect their wings, beaks, and feet.

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“Caring for homeless, hungry, or sick birds is the delight of my life,” he said.

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No one recognized the Wizard of Electricity on the city streets anymore.

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Now newspapers flashed headlines about an unusual old man, scattering seeds in the park.

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They called him the Pigeon Charmer of New York, and when reporters asked about his devotion to birds, he simply said: “All things from childhood are still dear to me.”

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When the old man died in his hotel room, penniless and alone, with the windows wide open and birdseed on his sill, the mayor of New York announced the sad news on the radio: “He was a feather in the cap of the whole human race.”

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A gifted inventor, a creature of habit.

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A lover of animals, a friend to humankind.

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A child of the storm, a child of the light.

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A human flash of lightning, far ahead of his time.

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