Nikola Tesla has been described as one of the most important inventors in history. He was born in a small village in what is now Croatia. Although Tesla attended school, where he showed an early talent for mathematics, and later university, he did not graduate, partly because he had not studied Greek. He became interested in electrical phenomena after seeing demonstrations by his physics professor at high school.
In 1881 Tesla began to work for a telegraph company in Budapest and had an opportunity to put his understanding of electricity into practice. He went on to work for the Edison electrical company in Paris before moving to New York in 1884.
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