Tesla vs. Edison... who is the better inventer?

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Tesla is the better inventor. AC current is way better than DC current. Edison did not invent the camera, but he did monopolize the American film industry by patenting it and slowing it to a grinding halt, which is why all the best films in the world for the first few decades came from France, Germany, and the Soviet Union.


In fact, Edison was behind the film Electrocuting an Elephant, in 1903. An elephant, Topsy, had killed a human, and was being executed. Edison, who ruled the American film business at the time, decided that it should be killed with Tesla's AC current and filmed, so that the whole world would think that Tesla's AC current was dangerous and deadly and could kill the world's largest land animal. Either current could have been used, but Edison would never miss an opportunity to defame his opponents with lies and propaganda.

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And there's the time a few decades before that, when Tesla worked for Edison, and Edison asked Tesla for help fixing his new invention, DC current. DC current sucked and had tons of bugs, so Edison couldn't get electricity into houses. He offered Tesla tons of cash if he could re-wire the whole lab and make it work. Tesla accepted the challenge and fixed everything up, saving Edison over $100,000, which would be a ridiculous amount of millions in today's money. Edison told Tesla that it wasn't a serious offer, and they had no contract, but it was just "something Americans say" that Tesla didn't understand as a foreigner and took too seriously. Tesla immediately quit, after being tricked into helping build Edison's evil empire. And Edison spent the rest of his life attacking and defaming Tesla, The Grand Fucking Wizard of Lightning Magic. And who was Edison? The Wizard of Menlo Park? What a loser.