Rewind: TESLA -- The Inventor in Old New York
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'Tesla's Autobiography
In 18 77, he went off to grotz, austria when he was 21, to study electrical engineering. He became fascinated with the possibility of another kind of electrical motor - something that would use alternating currents instead of direct current. In 18 81, through some more family connections, he moved to buddhapest, where he was working at the central telegraph office and then at budhapest telephone exchange as a chief electrician. But upon his arrival in budhapest, he was still, reportedly, still so obsessed with how to build this alternating current motor, wriht. According to him, he was also reciting out loud some of his favourite verses from gert's
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