While in high school, he had the ability to perform integral calculus in his head. It was so unusual that his teacher thought he was cheating. He possessed an eidetic memory, which means he could record entire books and images with great detail, a gift which he attributes from his mother. He allegedly used his imagination to temper visions and vivid nightmares that he had as a child. Unsurprisingly, Tesla finished high school early, at age seventeen though Tesla had a brush of death, after contracting Cholera in which he pleaded he might live if his father let him study engineering instead of the plan path of a priest or joining the army. Tesla’s father agreed and miraculously recovered. And the course of history would be changed
While in high school, he had the ability to perform integral calculus in his head. It was so unusual that his teacher thought he was cheating. He possessed an eidetic memory, which means he could record entire books and images with great detail, a gift which he attributes from his mother. He allegedly used his imagination to temper visions and vivid nightmares that he had as a child. Unsurprisingly, Tesla finished high school early, at age seventeen though Tesla had a brush of death, after contracting Cholera in which he pleaded he might live if his father let him study engineering instead of the plan path of a priest or joining the army. Tesla’s father agreed and miraculously recovered. And the course of history would be changed