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Truly, a man that died penniless while spouting rather fanciful and discredited claims of superweapons (earthquake machines, intercontinental death rays, for tw
by jonathankoren 3y ago
Truly, a man that died penniless while spouting rather fanciful and discredited claims of superweapons (earthquake machines, intercontinental death rays, for two) is clearly the man to emulate.
- bugglebeetle 3y agoTruly, the psychopath torturing animals with live current in public is the man to emulate!
- ChickeNES 3y agoNever happened, that's an urban legend
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- bugglebeetle 3y ago>Eventually, Edison’s team would kill 44 dogs, six calves, and two horses in their quest to discredit alternating current. https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/the-cruel-animal-testing-behind-thomas-edisons-quest-to-show-dangers-of-ac https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/the-cruel-animal...
- ChickeNES 3y agoOkay, I might have to mea culpa here, as I thought it was a reference to the infamous Topsy the elephant, which Edison was not involved with.
- krapp 3y agoYes. Who would want to be the genius who discovered a revolutionary paradigm in energy transmission and created numerous world-changing inventions when you could be the rich asshole who ripped him off? And also who claimed to have invented a telephone that talked to the dead[0], btw. [0]https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas-edisons-least-successful-invention-the-spirit-phone https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas...