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Post by +Justice on Jun 15, 2015 3:30:55 GMT -5
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Post by Webster on Jun 15, 2015 16:52:39 GMT -5
*scratches head in thought* Hmmm...FWIW, most of the history & science books that come to mind that I came across growing up, Justice, mentioned both of them...although in regards to Tesla, it was usually in passing. And Edison, for the record, was first and foremost an inventor and innovator who parlayed his successes there into becoming the businessman he became.
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Post by +Justice on Jun 17, 2015 0:53:25 GMT -5
*scratches head in thought* Hmmm...FWIW, most of the history & science books that come to mind that I came across growing up, Justice, mentioned both of them...although in regards to Tesla, it was usually in passing. And Edison, for the record, was first and foremost an inventor and innovator who parlayed his successes there into becoming the businessman he became. yes, he was an inventor as well, but that's besides the point here...
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Post by Webster on Jun 17, 2015 0:58:19 GMT -5
*scratches head in thought* Hmmm...FWIW, most of the history & science books that come to mind that I came across growing up, Justice, mentioned both of them...although in regards to Tesla, it was usually in passing. And Edison, for the record, was first and foremost an inventor and innovator who parlayed his successes there into becoming the businessman he became. yes, he was an inventor as well, but that's besides the point here... Problem there is that he was an inventor before he became a businessman...you can't separate the two.
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Post by +Justice on Jun 17, 2015 1:03:00 GMT -5
yes, i know... but still has nothing to do with the point the image is trying to make...
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Post by Webster on Jun 17, 2015 15:08:51 GMT -5
yes, i know... but still has nothing to do with the point the image is trying to make... Point conceded...but there is one area where Tesla beat Edison and that is the area of electricity. The story goes as follows: in 1879, Thomas Edison was the first to come up with a wide-scale means of distributing electricity, direct current. However, DC has a problem: it can only be transmitted short distances, which means you have to have lots of electrical distribution stations to transmit that power. Now, as Edison is working on DC power, Tesla had been tinkering with his own version of power distribution...at the same time as Tesla is working on his ideas for power distribution, another inventor/businessman by the name of George Westinghouse, was working on an alternating current (or AC) system of power distribution. The difference: unlike DC current, AC current be "stepped up" or "stepped down" via. the use of electric transformers w/out wasting tons of power as with DC current. Although Tesla's ideas never took root, Westinghouse knew of his ideas and, more importantly, knew of Thomas Edison's DC system; eventually, Westinghouse's AC current system of power distribution became the gold standard in North America, though not before a fierce back-and-forth competition between Edison & Westinghouse known as "the War of Currents". Quoting the Wiki's perspective on Tesla's contirbution to the War of Currents: ..for what its' worth, how this escapes the history books is a mystery to me...
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Post by +Justice on Jun 18, 2015 3:49:06 GMT -5
that too...
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Post by Webster on Jun 18, 2015 12:09:53 GMT -5
Yeah, Tesla got screwed by the history books there....they mention Edison & Westinghouse, but Tesla? Never heard of 'em...
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Post by +Justice on Jun 18, 2015 19:12:56 GMT -5
Yeah, Tesla got screwed by the history books there....they mention Edison & Westinghouse, but Tesla? Never heard of 'em... there's a lot that humans don't get taught in school...
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