Read Nikola Tesla’s biography to answer.
Nikola Tesla was a scientist whose inventions include the Tesla coil, alternating-current (AC) electricity, and the discovery of
the rotating magnetic field. Born in modern-day Croatia, Tesla came to the United States in 1884 and briefly worked
with Thomas Edison before the two parted ways. He sold several patent rights, including those to his AC machinery, to George
Westinghouse.
Tesla, born in Smiljan, Croatia, on July 10, 1856, was one of five children, including siblings Dane, Angelina, Milka and Marica.
His interest in electrical invention was spurred by his mother, Djuka Mandic, who invented small household appliances in her
spare time while her son was growing up. After studying at the Realschule, Karlstadt in Germany; the Polytechnic Institute in
Graz, Austria; and the University of Prague during the 1870s, Tesla moved to Budapest, where for a time he worked at the
Central Telephone Exchange. It was while in Budapest that the idea for the induction motor first came to Tesla, but after several
years of trying to gain interest in his invention, at age 28 Tesla decided to leave Europe for America.
In 1884 Tesla arrived in the United States with little more than the clothes on his back and a letter of introduction to famed
inventor and business mogul Thomas Edison, whose DC-based electrical works were fast becoming the standard in the country.
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