In today's world, Tesla is often associated with Elon Musk's electric car company. But the original Tesla was a brilliant man born in 1856 in Croatia. Nikola Tesla lived at the dawn of electricity and sometimes butted heads with other great minds of his time like Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. But did you know that this brilliant scientist had a strange obsession with a pigeon in New York City? Or that he was obsessed with numbers that were a multiple of 3?  In this episode, Alex and Kelly explore the world, ideas and mind of a truly strange genius, Nikola Tesla. Support the show Dirt Nap City is the show about interesting dead people. Subscribe and listen to learn about people you've heard of, but don't know much about. Someday we'll all live in Dirt Nap City, so you should probably go ahead and meet the neighbors!