tesla vs edison Options

[*kryogenix*]

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!

[*kryogenix*]

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.

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?

  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

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

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

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.