Nikola Tesla arrives in New York and is accepted by the Immigration Office in Manhattan, although the government employee evidently has difficulty understanding his nervous interlocutor, who is then registered as a native Swede (he had probably said “Smiljan,” not “Sweden”). Tesla is initially astonished by the crudeness and vulgarity of American speech. With Edison’s company in New York, Tesla works on dynamos (DC), but continues to envision three-phase motors (AC).
