Einstein's House
Enter and sign in please(I love how they painted the ceiling with galaxies)
The lived on two floors: this was the lower floor, with their living area at the front.The Einstein family (Einstein's father) ran an engineering business, which specialized in installing electric lighting. Perhaps this shows how Dr. Einstein's boyhood--spent around technical equipment--influenced his later thought-experiments.
Einstein was a man of unexpected, and sometimes unlikable, contradictions and polarities. As a student, he got a classmate pregnant, sent her away to have the baby (which he refused to see) and then apparently made the young woman give up the child for adoption. He regarded both of his wives as essentially caretakers, their main obligation being to see to his domestic needs. In the case of his first wife, he compelled her to forgo a promising scientific career and then treated her shabbily. He hardly ever saw their mentally ill younger son, whom he dismissed as degenerate.
Mileva Maric, that young fellow student who became his first wife
Looking out of the upper floor's balcony window.Mozart was Einstein's favorite composer, and the "Sonata for Piano and Violin in E Minor" was his favorite piece. Einstein's cultural tastes were so deeply old-fashioned that the physicist found nearly all 20th-century art and music utterly incomprehensible or repellent, especially the works influenced by his own ideas.
