Tesla Photos

Photo Date: 1879
Tesla in 1879 at age twenty-three.

Photo Date: 1885
Tesla in 1885, at age twenty-nine, shortly after his arrival in the United States.

Photo Date: 1894
Nikola Tesla, aged 38, at the height of his fame.

Photo Date: 1894
Mark Twain and Joseph (“Jo”) Jefferson in Tesla's South Fifth Avenue laboratory, 1894, with blurred image of Tesla between.

Photo Date: January, 1894
First photograph ever taken by phosphorescent light. The face is that of Mr. Tesla, and the source of light is one of his phosphorescent bulbs. The time of exposure, eight minutes. Date of photograph January, 1894.

Photo Date: 1895
Robert Underwood Johnson holding a loop with an incandescent lamp. Tesla is in the background at the switch.