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!

[tkproduce]

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".