Nikola Tesla was a scientist who invented the alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. He was professionally an electronic engineer.
Given that they share a peculiar word of extreme importance to them both, you must wonder whether the two, are in anyway related to each other?
However, these two individuals have nothing to do with each other and their surnames are a mere coincidence.
However, there is a peculiarity that does connect the two. They both posses a strange set of similar phobias.
Nikola Tesla, a Serbian American, born in Austria on July 10, 1856, worked in the telephone and electric power industry before graduating in engineering. He later immigrated to the United States and settled there. He later went onto become the founder of an electronic goods manufacturing company in New York, where he invented the Alternating current (AC) induction motor.
Fear is a phenomenon unknown to status, power, wealth or fame. A highly educated, genius of a person can also have phobia's, sometimes extremely unconventional ones.
Nikola Tesla - kosmemophobia
As for Nikola Tesla, he possesses, Kosmemophobia, the fear of Gems and Pearls. He is hesitant to even bear the sight of gems, jewels and pearls.
So bad has the fear engulfed him, that he has never been able to speak to any lady who wears pearls or gems.
Once, he was compelled to have to dismiss his own secretary when she walked into the office wearing a pearl necklace.
Elon Musk - Osmophobia or Olfactophobia
The co-founder of Tesla, SpaceX and many other ventures for coordinating and conducting private space explorations, Elon Musk has a uncommon phobia of strong scents.
Any pungent or strong scents are said to hurt his sense of smell causing a chronic migraine.
Any person attending company meetings or accompanying him for interviews, is strictly instructed to refrain from using pungent and strong fragrances in the form of deodorants, perfumes or otherwise.
Written By - Keerthana Bharadwaj
Edited By - Tushna Choksey
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Phobias does NOT have an apostrophe. Why do some people think a word ending in a vowel needs an apostrophe before the s on the end when making it plural? And not even picked up by the editor!
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