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mistaopportunity
Alistairetheblu
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WannaHaveACatch
Tesla worked for Edison! FFS, stop trying to rewrite history
alexandrukas
You're leaving out the part where Edison never paid Tesla the money he owed him.
Yetibag
Don't forget Joseph Swan getting stiffed aswell.
vanelanjenkins
A good read and dispels this nonsense pretty throughly. https://geekhistory.com/content/nikola-tesla-versus-thomas-edison-and-search-truth
TongueTiedLabourerfromtheLandoftheLittlePeople
"How is Edison's invention factory any different that the large number of engineers, designers, and programmers working for Microsoft or /
TongueTiedLabourerfromtheLandoftheLittlePeople
/Apple, but all we hear about is the success of Bill Gates or Steve Jobs?"
vanelanjenkins
They're essentially saying he is the head of a company, which he was. How is that wrong?
TongueTiedLabourerfromtheLandoftheLittlePeople
I wasn't disagreeing. I was just displaying the core point.
primelcsnow11
Perfect! Edison slutted Tesla out bad.
TrekTime
Edison was into marketing and production, using technology from Tesla. Same situation with Steve Jobs and Xerox.
vanelanjenkins
But he didn't use any tech from Tesla. He worked on AC with Westinghouse.
TrekTime
Source - Go watch "Pirates of Silicone Valley"
SoppyName
And with Gates and Jobs
ThePastmaster
There is apparently a 100% Edison only invention we use every day. Well, English speakers at least. "Hello."
TrekTime
Edison was the lightbulb.
TrekTime
Ahoy!
l009
Hello.
stuffnoseriouslyinex
Actually it was his Hungarian assistant
mollywobbles
You 100% mean Alexander Graham Bell, not Edison.
ThePastmaster
Bell used Ahoy like on ships, so no. Edison. Which is also credited with coining the word after a misheard Hullo! an exclamation of surprise
mollywobbles
You are 100% correct and I was misremembering.
GandalftheCaucasian
Unpopular opinion: Edison doesn't get enough credit.
ludimp
Why is that still so confusing for you. Isn't that same Jobs and the others do. You never heard the name of the ppl behind all new technolog
Anfalicious
Teach a cat to steal fish.
fastman119
I mean kind of. Unfortunately, Nikola was a pioneer of theory but was terrible at taking ideas to market.
GreenBar
Would it be wrong to repost this image and claim it OC? Asking for a friend.
iHadEnuf
Amazing.
collinagrant4
wernerru
there's a reason i have this one on my wall in the office
vanelanjenkins
Because you love misinformation?
chewbakken
God bless The Oatmeal.
Otaku4ever
Its Adventure Time...! Mmm.... no wait...!
Burke616
Best Atomic Robo crossover ever
Pleksus420
does edison have light bulb in his ass
GodEmperorOfImgur
Yes, one of his few ACTUAL inventions.
wernerru
yes. yes he does
wernerru
one of the many things i love about it hahhaa - from tesla's glowing white pigeon to the fact he's riding a cat after revenge
LegendMasterX
Edison will always be a hero of mine. Because he was a brilliant inventor, but unlike Tesla he was also an amazing businessman and sane
Sarujinie
"Sane" is not an adjective assigned to the man who electrocuted an abused elephant to death
LegendMasterX
She was going to be killed either way by her owners and electrocution was seen as a more humane way of doing it. Would you rather she have/
LegendMasterX
been hanged, because that was their original plan before edison stepped in.
EauMineraleNaturelle
this is how human advance, building on top of what the previous generation has done
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uzerok
Well, he wasn't quite sane. That's why he shouldn't be glorified as an infallible god. His ideas ought be examined on a case by case basis.
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SynMonger
That would imply that he got paid.
mistaopportunity
Except Edison promised Tesla money he never received and they ended up rivals after the fact.
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Hendlton
$50 000 back then was a lot more money. Like, Tesla could have retired with that money, instead of dying poor and basically homeless.
Dionysus187
So he took in Tesla's work without paying? That's literally theft.
mistaopportunity
Well you know, back then there weren't a lot of systems in check to prevent that.
Dionysus187
Yeah but they are arguing he didn't steal from Tesla, he just commissioned work and didnt pay him. A longer way of saying he stole from him.
TalkingSnake
I was gifted a bust of Edison. I keep him facing a number of books written by other people. I think he would like that.
ShadowbanMyAss
Be would proly steal them
KenpachiJiraiya
They'll say "awww Topsy" at my autopsy
wernerru
TalkingSnake
The bust of Newton is on the top shelf, as if on the shoulder of a giant.
SoraHjort
Personally would have put him in the kitchen or something, as he was an alchemist. (later retconned in many history books as a scientist)
TalkingSnake
He was a naturalist, proto-science, and he spent far more of his life in religious scripture than anything else. Dude was one of a kind.
SoraHjort
I am not seeing anything about him being a naturalist. Being a alchemist on the other hand? Plenty. Also Alchemy is The proto-science :P
TalkingSnake
I suggest you check out the book The Clockwork Universe. It lays out how some very strange people stumbled over what would become the -
celestedrake
Is the bust of Tesla surrounded by pigeons and lightning?
Jackeea
No, if it's surrounded by pigeons and lightning (very very frightning), you want a bust of Galileo
TalkingSnake
Galileo?
TalkingSnake
I don’t have a Tesla effigy yet, but there is an over priced statuette with a magnetic bit that I can’t justify the cost of.
celestedrake
That is fair.
TalkingSnake
Although I would pay out the nose for a provenly accurate bust of Robert Hooke, just to piss off the memory of Newton.