They were both kind of douchebags, though, especially Edison. Tesla (I know he's the patron saint of the internet and all, don't take it the wrong way) wholeheartedly supported eugenics (eliminating "undesirable" people, i.e. those with disabilities and forbidding them to procreate). Edison publicly electrocuted animals like puppies and cats, even elephants, and later on a convicted criminal, killing all of them. Both had rather admirable effects in science, though. ~*The More You Know!*~
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D:
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Eugenics was actually a pretty popular idea at that time. A lot of the intelligentsia and politicians were in favor of it until Hitler actually did it.
The reason he electrocuted stuff is because he made DC (direct?currents), and shortly later Tesla made AC(Alternating currents). Not wanting the competition, Edison rigged some experiments using AC to publicly electrocute stuff, "proving it was bad". However, apparently no one cared and DC fell out of favor. Btw, the zoo was gonna kill the elephant for what not, so Edison asked if he could do it.
Apart from AC, Tesla also created radio, radar, x-rays, the first hydroelectric power plant; all of which he gets no credit for. He fluently spoke eight languages and could memorize entire books and recite them at will. He lived till 86 and was celibate his entire life i.e. never had sex.
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For him to be celibate must have been hard. I mean, with a face like that!
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I think he was engaged at some point but broke it off because having a family would distract him from his work. That's dedication there.
Just did a whole project on tesla and found out that he invented a way to have endless wireless energy by charging your homes from the electricity in the ionosphere, but scrapped it because he knew uninspired jackasses were going to steal his patents.
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*finds desendants of Nikola Tesla*
*Takes their blood*
*uses ingredients to make all the things in an average adult male*
*uses water*
*uses philsoper's stone*
*revives Nikola Tesla*
I love Tesla, however, if electricity were free, then who would pay to run the generators? would we conserve? there is no such thing as free and it's time we quit making whiny posts about it
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We didn't have a whiny post about free electricity.
we've had several about "free" things. and this post is kind of putting down Edison because he found how to charge people for electricity (hehe, charge...)
Tesla: Yesss. Werk.
Edison: I'll shock you with my bank account.
*Takes their blood*
*uses ingredients to make all the things in an average adult male*
*uses water*
*uses philsoper's stone*
*revives Nikola Tesla*