"By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company."
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer known for his work on alternating current power systems. His inventions and patents helped shape modern electrical transmission and industrial power use.