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Book SynopsisFrom the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Nikola Tesla, the scientist and inventor whose groundbreaking inventions we continue to use today. Since he was a young boy growing up in the Austrian Empire, Nikola was fascinated by science and numbers. His teachers knew he had a
brilliant mind, but Nikola's irregular routines and fondness for playing cards meant that he was
kicked out of school before he could finish his exams. However, after working for a spell at the Budapest Telephone Exchange, where he made several clever innovations to their electrical systems, he managed to get a job with
Edison Machine Works in New York, U.S.A.
In the United States, Tesla's
inquisitive nature and
ingenious mind spurred him on to keep exploring electricity, and he came up with several groundbreaking inventions during this time, including
breakthroughs in
