Bring Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), the Serbian-American inventor who championed alternating current and changed how the world is electrified, into your classroom. Note: this resource is about Tesla the inventor, not the car company that took his name. Students examine his Smiljan childhood in the Croatian military frontier of the Austrian Empire, his arrival in New York in 1884 with four cents in his pocket and a letter to Edison, the bitter AC versus DC current war with Thomas Edison, the Westingh