12 Immigrants Who Made American Science Great

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1 Nikola Tesla Lights Up the World what is now Croatia Tesla’s family was Serbian His father was a priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church His mother invented clever household tools Tesla studied math and physics in school He learned engineering In 1884 he immigrated to the United States He began working for Thomas Edison But Tesla disagreed with Edison’s ideas Edison used direct current DC electricity Tesla had an idea he believed would be more efficient In 1887 Tesla started his own company He developed a system to generate alternating current AC electricity In 1893 Tesla demonstrated his system at the Chicago World’s Fair The crowd was impressed The invention brought him money and respect Tesla was hired to design a new power plant It would generate power from The world runs on electricity because of Nikola Tesla He invented the power system we use today He also thought up wireless communication Tesla was born in 1856 He lived in the mountains of 4