The Inventor – Nikola Tesla

7 responses to “The Inventor – Nikola Tesla”

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   jurvetson

   Aug 17, 2012 at 5:17 am

   I spied Elon Musk’s Tesla Coil recently

   

   Elon donated to the museum too: "He is a hero of mine."

   And some images from The Inventor biocomic… Tesla arrives in America:
   

   Edison electrocutes an elephant in a public marketing campaign against Tesla’s AC power
   
   Edison was so competitive with Tesla (partnered with Westinghouse at the time) that he arranged for the electric chair to use AC power for electrocutions, conveying the marketing message that AC is lethal (versus the DC power systems that Edison sold). Edison’s lab “Westinghoused” 24 dogs purchased from local children for 25 cents apiece before moving to larger animals, and then a human criminal.

   Redemption song
   

   On his deathbed, Edison volunteered that his biggest mistake was trying to develop DC instead of the vastly superior AC system that his former employee, Nikola Tesla, had put within his grasp.

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   solerena

   Aug 17, 2012 at 5:25 am

   This is so great!!! Yes, the future is ours!!!! He was probably always right:)

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   bike-R

   Aug 17, 2012 at 3:09 pm

   Edison the SHOWMAN was always playing the PR for the press, might say he was the ROCK star of the 80’s..the 1880’s, people and press would come to MENLO PARK by train and just GAWK at him and hung on his every word.sadly when he moved to WEST ORANGE the Invention Factory in Melno Park was left to rot and be looted, and this monster was built in it;’s place ………………..

   http://www.menloparkmuseum.org/

   Paul Israel is doing a bang up job of investigatng the Edison Papers and printing them for modern times…….

   I Actually touched the broken glass bulbs shards they threw away in trash at the MP lab when they did a dig a few years back……..Very Moving.

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   jurvetson

   Aug 17, 2012 at 4:34 pm

   From what you have seen and read, what you think of Edison? When I grew up, we were given the grade-school revisionist history version. It was only when I read Tesla biographies that I even heard about this other side of Edison…

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   bike-R

   Aug 17, 2012 at 5:35 pm

   From growing up in the area and from grade school to currnent times, I was taught he was a inventor yes, but also a person who thrived on public adoration and approval THE MOST MAJOR accomplishement of his was the INVENTION of the INVENTION FACTORY (HUH??) where people we brought together and ideas pooled and then created by Batchlor and others from his(andothers) designs and concepts. It was a cut-throat times back then, ideas stolen and copied without any credits given, and when TAE left MENLO his ithrust switched from being a inventor to being inventor/businessman…To walk the areas of Menlo Park now and just imagine the solice and isolation it provided him(was failed housing development located near a rail station) to concentrate on the inventions there was the main reason for being there…………He also challenged TESLA for inventing a better power distribution system and offered money to him only to reneg when Tesla did………So I say history has a way of embellishing the accomplishements of the victors and leaving the ones who really contributed by the wayside………….

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   linux-works

   Aug 17, 2012 at 8:05 pm

   yet, don’t they use DC in data centers? 48v or something? although this is for different reasons. long distance, you do want AC, I believe.

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   jurvetson

   Aug 17, 2012 at 10:20 pm

   exactly.

   P.S. if you donate, you can get a cool bumper sticker =)
   

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