The nineteenth and twentieth centuries were a time of enormous prosperity and extensive immigration for the United States. These two have a close correlation with each other; the prosperity of the United States was primarily the result of the few ingenious immigrants who fled their home country for a better life in the United States Andrew Carnegie and Albert Einstein are some examples, but none can be compared to a man, a man who would changed the way the entire world would see the power of electricity. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika, a region of Croatia. His mother was an inventor of household appliances and managed the family farm. His father was a Serbian Orthodox priest. He had three younger sisters and an older brother. His older brother tragically died in a horseback riding accident, leaving young Nikola Tesla grief-stricken over the loss of his beloved. Throughout the rest of his childhood, Tesla was interested in how things worked, physics and mathematics. He later studied at the University of Prague and the Polytechnic University of Graz, Austria. Tesla had an ingenious mind. He saw ideas and problems that others couldn't see or understand. One day, while taking a walk in a park, a revolutionary idea came to him. His whole life, and the world around him, was about to change. The young Tesla built and successfully operated a prototype of his induction motor. At first no one was interested in this invention, so he later moved to New York in 1884, looking for a better chance to show the world his revolutionary invention, and later accepted a job offer from Thomas Edison. While working at Thomas At Edison's headquarters in Manhattan, Tesla amazed and impressed Edison with his inventiveness... middle of paper... the tower was destroyed. With the threat of world war looming, it was difficult for Tesla to find new investors. Tesla continued his normal life and became increasingly weaker as he grew older. Tesla, despite his financial fame, lived in poverty. He resided at the New Yorker Hotel in room 3327 for the last ten years of his well-lived life. Finally, on January 7, 1943, Nikola Tesla died in his room due to coronary thrombosis. It was discovered only two days later, when a maid entered the room. Tesla was later cremated and kept in a spherical urn at the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade. Nikola Tesla left a legacy that would forever change the world, many of his inventions are still widely used today but sadly history and society forget the man and his contributions that brought us to where we are today. Because a man said that everything he did, he did for the good of humanity.