What event contributed to the first signs of Nikola Tesla’s lifelong mental illness?
Correct answer: At age 7, Nikola’s brother was killed in a riding accident

Player #25874027
Tesla is the giant upon whose shoulders Edison stood to steal a lot of his work

Player Don1
As a tribute, an entire car company was named after him.

Helloween
He was a true scientist and inventor.

budgie
A sad end for a genius

Player #28206805
He was misused by people who were influential for nothing. Talent and knowledge must not be abused in the way Edison did to him.

cheena71
Cookie Bean, Bowie was in "The Prestige," with Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman or is their another movie w/the same title?
Well, duh...guess I could look it up for myself!

Player: Coco
Nikola's 12 year old brother was Dane, not Daniel.

antzuzu
What's Elon's excuse?

Whistling Jake
meka, And, after all, who can really say tat he wasn't talking to the pigeons? OCD is turning out to look like a

Pentatonic Patty
A number of boxes containing some of his inventions were seized from his apartment after he died. Another example of the government’s mandate, “for the people”!

sandstorm
I don't believe that he was mentally ill.

meka
It goes to show that people with significant mental illness ( and without the treatments we have now) can go on to live productive lives.

Giggle pig
TwoTin16, no, he didn’t.

toe jam
nowadays children who lose a loved one are able to seek grief or PTSD treatment.

KittyA9
In other cultures he would not be seen as mentally ill.

chubbycheq
cheena71, You're talking about the same movie as Cookie Bean. David Bowie played Tesla