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Tesla had a vivid imagination and an intuitive way of developing scientific hypotheses. After seeing a demonstration of the "Gramme dynamo", Tesla visualized a rotating magnetic field and developed plans for an induction motor applying the concept. This electric motor was the first step toward the successful application of alternating-current. Tesla used his imagination to prove and apply his hypotheses. He is some information in how his behavior as a human been.

Marital status: Never married, celibate.

Notable physical features: Tesla was six feet six inches tall with abnormally long thumbs. A patch of white hair temporarily formed on his jet black hair when his mother died.

Some bizarre behaviors: Columbiphilia (pigeon-love), kakiphobia (fear of dirt), scotophilia (love of the dark), pathophobia (fear of germs), spherophobia (fear of round objects), triphilia (obsession with the number 3), and visual and auditory hallucinations.

Frivolous signature: Sometimes he signed his letters with the initials "G.I.", for Great Inventor.

Standard dress: Black Prince Albert coat and a derby hat, white silk handkerchiefs, stiff collars -- all worn even in the laboratory or when covered with living carpets of pigeons.

Residence as an adult: Various New York City hotels.

Religion: Interested in Buddhism and Christianity, but not an orthodox believer.

Despised Rivals: Thomas Edison, inventor, and Guglielmo Marconi, physicist.

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