Nikola Tesla Books
IN SEARCH OF NIKOLA TESLA Smiljan, Austria (now Croatia), where Tesla was born on Juky 10, 1856 he attempted to work out through the many images of death and resurrection which occur in his paintings. In his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, the Catalan painter writes of his brother, also named Salvador, who died before Dali was born: He had the unmistakable facial morphology of a genius... I, on the other hand, was much less intelligent, but I reflected everything. Dali also claims that, in being christened in the name of his dead brother, he became the 'saviour' of modern painting. Nikola appears to have been a thin, unhealthy boy, very shy and a worry to his parents. His major love was nature and for hours he would walk in the countryside and imagine how he could harness the power of the wind or the endless movement of the rivers. In this, young Nikola was following in his mother's footsteps, for Djouka was famed for her household inven59
