Nikola Tesla 1882 · Paris & Ivry
Twenty-seven circuits in the water
06:00–06:30 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. Placed before the one-hour walk to Ivry and the recorded 07:30 breakfast. The 06:00 start and half-hour swim are estimates.Source timing: Every morning, before work
“Every morning, regardless of weather, I would go from the Boulevard St. Marcel, where I resided, to a bathing house on the Seine, plunge into the water, loop the circuit twenty-seven times”
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 describing the Seine bathing house
Timing & context
The swim has no start time or duration in the text.
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.