Was nikola tesla gay
By: Bryan K. Ludeña Campoverde
Nikola Tesla’s personal life has been the subject of much speculation, and there is no definitive proof of his sexual orientation. However, some evidence suggests that Tesla may hold been gay. In addition to his close friendship with Robert Underwood Johnson, Tesla also had a strong emotional attachment to his friend George Sylvester Viereck, a poet and writer. Some of Tesla’s letters to Viereck own been described as having a romantic tone, with phrases like “I cannot help loving you dearly” and “I love you as a brother”.
Tesla was also known to be a private person, which may have contributed to the secrecy surrounding his personal life. In any case, his sexual orientation does not diminish his achievements as a brilliant inventor and engineer.
Tesla’s Function and Its Connection to His Sexual Orientation
Some scholars have analyzed Tesla’s serve and inventions through a queer lens, suggesting that his fascination with electricity and light was linked to his own sexuality. For example, his invention of the Tesla coil, which produces high-voltage, low-current, and high-frequency alternating-current
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Additional Notes:
- If you need to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time
- Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to compose a comic about Tesla. Ben's also got a manual out which is packed full of awesome.
- There's an old feature from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his experience.
- The drunk history of Tesla is quite wonderful, too.
- History.com has a amazing article about Edison and how his douchebaggery had a chokehold on American cinema.
- X-rays: just to clarify, Tesla did not uncover x-rays, but he was one of the early pioneers in its research.
- Cryogenic engineering: I'm referring to the cryogenic engineering that has to complete with using liquified air to hip a coil and reduce its electrical resistance (Patent No. 11,865), not freezing pe My reflexive response to this doubt is: get a life. This is a puerile inquiry that seeks to pigeonhole a person rather than understand him.
A more considered answer might be: Tesla is an important historical figure and who we are as a people is an key question. So, let's go there.
I will address this matter by looking at the broad issues of whether there is evidence of his sexual attraction to men or evidence of his acting upon this attraction.
Tesla was a lifelong bachelor with no known romantic interests, male or female, attached to him. He did maintain friendships with both men and women with more of the closer relationships organism with men^1.
There are two competing arguments which may apply to Tesla.
First, there is the Elton John argument. In the liner notes of a 1970s album, he explained the reason why he was not associated with women: his career made him too busy. Applying this typical to Tesla, we say his protestations of being too occupied for a relationship were a cover-up.
Second, there is the Duke Ellington argument. He wrote an autobiography titled, "Music Is My Mistress." In one anecdote, he explains to his wife-to-be that even though they would be
Queer People Have Always Existed
Hello again queerlings! Happy Asexual Awareness Week from your friendly History is Gay hosts.
To our ace, aro, & anywhere in between listeners, we love you and hope you own all the delicious cake you can get this week! Each day this week, we’re bringing you short factoids about some people in history who likely could have identified as ace!
Today we bring you some fun factoids about none other than the Serbian-Croation mad genius of electricity, Nikola Tesla!
The fastidious inventor was famously celibate, died a virgin, and had a strict personal hygiene regimen that could have prevented him from having sexual intimacy, even if he desired it. Many historians have posited that he was both asexual and aromantic.
Women fawned over him (I mean, glance at those dashing good looks!), but he often insisted that romance or sex would hinder his creativity and scientific abilities.
Speaking on these matters, he was quoted as saying:
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success&hell