Last week my friend and neighbor - George Dawson - traveled to Serbia among other countries - on a river cruise. He gave me this 100 Dinars note. One Dinar is equal to one US Cent. Nikola Tesla was born in Eastern Europe. He was a great scientist in the study of electricity. He came to the USA in 1882 to work with Edison's companies. Today Tesla is credited with inventing the alternating current system of electricity transfer. At the time - politics did not give him the credit he deserved. Thomas Edison favored direct current transfer of electricity. Thanks to Tesla's system - we can send electricity many miles from where it is produced. Elon Musk named his Tesla automobile after Nikola Tesla because he invented the AC Induction Motor - which is used in the Tesla Cars. Tesla died in debt in 1943 in New York. His name lives on in the car.
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