Nikola Tesla 1882 · Paris & Ivry
Difficult problems at the factory
08:00–12:00 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. Placed after the 07:30 breakfast and before lunch. An 08:00 start and noon finish are estimates.Source timing: Before lunch
“and then eagerly await the lunch hour, in the meanwhile cracking hard nuts for the Manager of the Works, Mr. Charles Batchellor, who was an intimate friend and assistant of Edison.”
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 factory manager Charles Batchellor
Timing & context
Tesla uses a metaphor for difficult problems. No exact work interval is given.
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.