Please don't get your history from The Oatmeal. If you want to read a real account of what Edison actually did, the opening chapters of this classic are great:

Please don't get your history from The Oatmeal. If you want to read a real account of what Edison actually did, the opening chapters of this classic are great: https://www.amazon.com/Networks-Power-Electrification-1880-1930-Softshell/dp/0801846145 https://www.amazon.com/Networks-Power-Electrification-1880-1...