Nikola Tesla Books
He was offered to share the Nobel Prize with Edison, but he refused; he didn't want to share the prize with anyone else. Tesla considered himself a "discoverer" of new scientific truths, while Edison was merely an "inventor" of technical applications of known facts.
In his time, Lenin invited Tesla to Russia, which he declined, given his age. After the resolution, Big Brother would not hear of Tesla, which, of course, cannot harm Tesla's reputation.
In his youth, he liked not only to play cards but also billiards; he smoked heavy cigars and drank a lot of black coffee. Over time, he gave up all of that. For about ten years, he regularly ordered black coffee which he only smelled, until he finally gave it up. In his youth, he liked to eat a lot of meat, but he gave that up too and ate it very rarely. He studied various theories about nutrition, and in old age, he came to believe that two meals, in the morning and in the evening, were sufficient. He considered lunch superfluous because it cannot be timely converted into energy for work. After dinner, he would regularly eat one apple.
He often moved from hotel to hotel; when he couldn't afford rent and food, he would move to a cheaper hotel. For the last ten years, he lived in the Hotel New Yorker. In the hotel, he would regularly dine alone at a table, at which no one was allowed to sit, neither before nor after him. The table had to be covered with a clean tablecloth every time, and on the other chair next to him, two dozen clean napkins had to be prepared.
In his apartment, there had to be a private bathroom that no one else was allowed to use. When working, he would wash his hands every moment, and his secretary always had to give him a new clean towel.
