an clients. Tesla repaired the dynamos and made good friends with the train stations manager. However, when Tesla returned to collect his bonus it never materialized. Angered at being swindled, he resigned. A good friend of Teslas at the Edison plant suggested he go to America, the land of opportunity. Teslas friend had known Edison and wrote the new inventor a letter of recommendation. Heading for America, Tesla found himself at the train station with no money in his britches but hopped aboard anyway and found enough change on the train to pay his fair. When he arrived at his ship he was able to talk his way aboard when no one showed up to claim his berth. Arriving in New York at immigration Tesla set to the streets to find Edison. Meanwhile, Edison was promising a nonexistent engineer to an over do ocean liner with some broken dynamos. As Edison hangs up the phone Tesla arrives and introduces himself and his alternating current motor. Uninterested in the motor, Edison hires Tesla to fix the ships dynamos. While working for Edison, Tesla found several possible improvements which could be made to his employers plants that would improve service and cut costs. Edison interested in the latter primarily, promised fifty thousand dollars to Tesla if he made the necessary changes. Hardly sleeping, Telsa succeeded, doing an even better job than he had expected. When Tesla came to collect Edisons jaw dropped, and acting astonished told Tesla he did not understand their American humor. Edison did, however, offer Tesla a whopping ten dollar a week raise. Tesla put on his hat and walked out the door. Tesla was about to return home when he was approached by a group of investors who proposed to form a company under Teslas name. Tesla leapt at the opportunity, hoping to unveil the worlds eyes to his alternating current discovery, thus creating the Tesla Electric light company. Unfortunately, the investors were in the mark...
