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From Immigrant to Inventor

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A poor Serbian village boy clashes with school authorities over his ethnic identity, accidentally ends up in late 19th century New York, struggles as an immigrant farm-hand, achieves a well-earned American education/citizenship and positions of influence and power with captains of industry by his well known scientific discoveries: the radio tuner and long distance telephone wire communication.

This book is remarkable for its depth of appreciation for American cultural values by a foreigner who deserves his American citizenship more than most Americans! Highly recommended to all immigrant Americans who question the worth of American values and to Americans who seem to have forgotten.

Also it is fascinating for students of physics who are interested in turn-of-the-century electromagnetic science and for those who seek a glimpse of Columbia University in 1880s.