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While the article is excellent, it is wrong on one point. Edison didn't invent anything at all; Tesla is responsible for most inventions credited to Edison toda
by jeremiep 14y ago
While the article is excellent, it is wrong on one point. Edison didn't invent anything at all; Tesla is responsible for most inventions credited to Edison today. The world could definitely do with as little Edisons as possible, what the world really needs are more Teslas.
- theorique 14y agoHowever, Edison was a great research leader and business leader, and pitch-man for his ideas.
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoHe was a piss-poor research leader, with a sweatshop for researchers and about zero participation of his Engineers in profit sharing. He was a greedy Gilded Age industrialist.
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoWhile I appreciate Tesla as much as the next person, the statement that he's responsible for "most" of Edison's inventions is wholeheartedly not true. Edison is still seen as being largely responsible for things like the phonograph and kinetoscope, the pre-cursors to modern music and television, as well as hundreds of other inventions in other areas that Tesla never touched.
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoYes; Edison invented some toys. Tesla invented the modern industrial power complex, almost wholly from his own head. You almost have to think he was a time traveler or alien or something, to get thousands of details exactly right to propel a civilization into the electric age.