<B>From 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.</B><BR/><BR/> 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 <B>brilliant mind</B>, but Nikola's irregular routines and fondness for playing cards meant that he was<B> kicked out of school before he could finish his exams</B>. 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 <B>Edison Machine Works in New York, U.S.A</B>.<BR/><BR/> In the United States, Tesla's<B> inquisitive nature</B> and<B> ingenious mind </B>spurred him on to keep exploring electricity, and he came up with several groundbreaking inventions during this time, including <B>breakthroughs in