Nikola Tesla 1882 · Paris & Ivry
A substantial breakfast
07:30 · start only
“There I would have a woodchopper's breakfast at half-past seven o'clock”
Verbatim excerpt · Nikola Tesla
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My Inventions IV: The Discovery of the Tesla Coil and Transformer
Electrical Experimenter · May 1919
Paris passage, before the paragraph about American colleagues · Tesla Universe transcription
Passage: Paris passage · sentence about arriving at the Ivry factory
Timing & context
The account provides the breakfast time, not its length.
Weekday in the source
No weekday specified in this passage
“Every morning, regardless of weather”
Paris routine passage in ‘My Inventions IV’ View passage ↗
Tesla describes a repeated morning routine without naming a weekday. This autobiographical passage supports a general routine, not a dated diary day. This finding is limited to the cited passage.
Tesla recalled his Paris employment years. Breakfast is the only activity with a clock time; the one-hour walk has no recorded start.
1882 is a representative display year selected by Typical Tuesday. The routine belongs to his Paris period before early 1883, recalled in 1919.