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I think the argument was that he did precisely that. Yet history paints him as a great inventor (he was, and filed a lot of patents), and most people likely thi
by Beskz 8y ago
I think the argument was that he did precisely that. Yet history paints him as a great inventor (he was, and filed a lot of patents), and most people likely think of him as a "good/nice guy" which he may or may not have been.
- Retric 8y agoYea, I realized that might be the case after posting. But, it’s an ambiguous statement in context.
- Ensorceled 8y agoThomas Edison is notorious for doing this, so it isn’t that ambiguous.
- novia 8y agoHi, hello, I'm a person who didn't know, so the clarification was valuable to me.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoFor others, just about every bio of Nikola Tesla describes how poorly he was treated by Edison. Interesting reading.
- DonHopkins 8y agoElectrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant, says a lot more about you as a human being than the person you're trying to discredit by electrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant. https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/10/19/edison-publicly-tortured-animals-to-discredit-ac-power/ https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/10/19/edison-publicly-torture... https://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/ https://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant NSFL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlPYikt_qvo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlPYikt_qvo
- Retric 8y agoI don't disagree with the larger point but: "The war of the currents (sometimes called battle of the currents) was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents Electrocuting an Elephant seems to have occurred a decade after the war of currents January 17, 1903.
- DonHopkins 8y agoSo he had even less justification for electrocuting the elephant than trying to discredit Tesla, and he was even older and should have known better. That makes him an even worse human being in my book. Don't fuck with elephants!
- antidesitter 8y agoEdison was not responsible for Topsy's death. That is a myth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)#Association_with_Thomas_Edison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)#Association_w... http://edison.rutgers.edu/topsy.htm http://edison.rutgers.edu/topsy.htm