AbstractsBiology & Animal Science

Based upon a true story, ???Against the Current??? explores the life of ingenious inventor Nikola Tesla as he relentlessly pursues his dream of illuminating a darkened world with his own unique method of harnessing the power of electricity. Disowned by his devoutly religious father and belittled by his college Professors, Tesla leaves his native Europe to start over in America with the hope of finding someone to believe in him and his ideas. There he gains employment with his childhood idol, world famous inventor Thomas Edison, but when Edison betrays him, Tesla decides to independently pursue the same government contract he was helping Edison obtain. Despite far fewer resources and a persuasive public smear campaign by Edison and his heavyweight corporate backers, Tesla enlists the help of renegade financier George Westinghouse as he does his best to build a functional prototype, win the contract from Edison, and prove to a skeptical world that ???alternating current??? is indeed the future.