vote please.

honestly i think Tesla was the greater of the two. he gets sooooo little recognition for his work. AC > DC. Tesla > Edison.

EDISON IS A DIRTBAG!

hey, that's not very nice : \

Not very many people are invovled with their electrical history, eh?

who'd you vote for?

well,seeing as how you voted for telsa, a man i've never even heard of until today. I went with edison.

I could care less though, it's all magic and pixxie dust to me

the first time i heard of tesla was from red alert. remember that game? the tesla coils? yeah well i researched it and got nikola tesla.

Edison all the way... He discovered a lot about electricity, and I'm surprised he didn't get shocked by that lighting

Well, alternating current is more useful than direct current, but they're not the only things these two invented, so I don't think that should be the basis of the argument on who was "better". I think they both deserve recognition for what they contributed

yes, that's the sad thing about it. no one knows who tesla is. they only know about his telsa coils. did you know tesla coils were actually meant for energy transfer, not for killing people?



research Tesla. you're missing out on one of the greatest inventors of all time.



Here are some of Mr. Tesla's inventions:

• Hydroelectric Generator
• Radio
• Microwave
• Flourescent lights

He would have patented many more, but Thomas Edison went on a smearing campaign to destroy Tesla's image.

Tesla was actually an employee of Edison. Edison offered him $50,000 to fix problems in his DC dynamos. After a year of work, he came up with the AC system. Guess what Edison said. "Tesla, you don't understand our American humor."

He said, Nah, just kidding and didn't pay Tesla. What a dirtbag.

Tesla gets very little recognition. The Smithsonian won't even put him in their museum.

well, magnetic flux density is measured in Teslas (T). Edison doesn't have any unit named after him.

I think Edison seems to be more famous for what he did because it's easier to explain to little kids the concept of discovering the lightbulb compared to the uses of alternating current. But in the world of physics, both are just as famous as each other.

but edison does have many electric companies bearing his name.

and as i said earlier, the smithsonian refuses to honor tesla with a display (as far as i know). this guy is making Tesla sculptures and sending them to major universities to protest the Smithsonian's actions. let me find the link.

yeah...i feel sorry for telsa. he did so much yet got so little recognition.

Well all the Smithsonian cares about is how many people come and visit and how much money they can make from ticket sales, and so displaying stuff about a more widely known scientist (i.e. Edison) over a scientist with a slightly lower profile (i.e. Tesla) is going to attract more visitors who are likely to know nothing about physics but have heard of Edison. That's reality, i guess

oh yeah. i forgot that the smithsonian would rather make money than educate the people. maybe people would know more about Tesla if they made a display for him.


just an hour ago, a speaker at our awards ceremony talked about edison's greatness and how he tried very hard to become successful. but the truth is, he hired hundreds of workers at Menlo Park, New Jersey to do experiments for him. He worked using a trial and error method, trying dozens of times before he got the experiment right. Tesla, lacking Edison's wealth, would try his best to get it right the first time.

I don't know why you seem to be obsessed with Tesla, but there are hundreds of other scientists who have got little recognition for what they have contibuted to the world of science. For example, Norman Heatley (who used to be a student at my school, apparently) who turned the discovery of penicillin into usable medicine, is virtually unknown compared to Alexander Flemming who discovered penicillin by mistake. Flemming didn't have a clue what to do with his discovery and little did he know that it would lead to saving millions of lives. It was only through Heatley's work that penicillin became of use to us - but nowadays Flemming seems to get more recognition for his "miraculous" discovery of penicillin, maybe because it sounds a bit "romantic".

seems to be a little off topic, but i'm just complaining cuz i dont know who you're talking about, lol but anyways, on the topic, i vote edison simply because if it werent for the lightbulb, i'd have no light by which to post this

I'm not obsessed with Tesla. If you want to discuss Heatley, you can make another topic about him. But thanks for the info, i've learned something new .




but you wouldn't have stable electricity to power your computer to post without Tesla's AC system.