All we know about Tesla’s youth is from his autobiography. To read “My Inventions”, written when he was over 60 years old, makes some fun, it is Tesla’s “Portrait of the electrician as a young man”. It focusses on remembrances and details of his personality: his mother Djouka he dearly loved; his father Milutin he somehow got along with; but always seeing Dane, his elder brother, in front of him, made him sick, literally. What could Tesla do? Why was Tesla so alienated to himself? He was so different to the world he lived in, he liked to escape from everything, his home, his family, he had no friends besides Macak the cat. Being in nature’s surroundings was the oly thing that made him happy. Tesla, the single. And another question: Why is there no photograph of Tesla as a baby, a boy, a teenager? Wouldn’t it be nice to have one of those?
