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MAKING THE MODERN WORLD
▲ DEEP IN THOUGHT
Seen here in his laboratory, Tesla was clearly
a man of science. However, he also claimed
LIFE STORY that he could speak eight languages.
1856 1882 1884 1887
Nikola Tesla is born in the While living in Paris, France, Tesla immigrates to the US, He develops the AC induction
village of Smiljan, in what is Tesla works for the Continental arriving with just four cents in motor as an alternative to DC.
now the country of Croatia. Edison Company, set up by his pocket, some of his favorite It would soon become the
He claimed a lightning storm famed American inventor poems, and calculations for most widely used type of
was raging as he was born. Thomas Edison. a flying machine. electric motor.
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