030 Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Serbia 44° 48 19.38 N, 20° 28 12.92 E The Man Who Lit Up the World Thomas Edison is the name most people associate with electric light, but the man responsible for providing the electricity to lights and every other electri- cal device used today is Nikola Tesla (Figure 30-1). Tesla was born to Serbian parents in what is now Croatia, and lived in Hungary and France before mov- ing to the U.S. in 1885. It was there that Tesla became the greatest electrical experimenter since Michael Faraday (see Chapter 75) and laid the foundations for modern electricity distribution.