**** You Thomas Edison, Tesla was the real Genius
 

I just finished watching "The Prestige" and it reignited my disdain for Thomas Edison.

Sure, he gave us the lightbulb, but Tesla gave us Alternate Current[AC]

Tesla also set up a system that gave us all free electricity, but it was thwarted and his funds were dried up by JP Morgan, and his lab destroyed... can't be giving away shit for free.

Edison was an insecure prick and most people don't realize this, because the history books were written by those who he was in favor with.

Tesla got hosed.

http://www.viewzone.com/tesla.html

Just curious, is this the first you've heard about Nikola Tesla?

of course not.


hence the "...and it reignited my disdain for Thomas Edison."

I have many books and videos on Tesla... but I dont recall having ever seen a thread about the subject.

ya, Thomas Edison has nothing on you.

George: It's like I'm Neil Armstrong. I turn around for a sip of Tang and you jump out first.

You probably think Elisha Gray invented the telephone.

I think Tesla was a very good and underrated 80s band.

Didn't they have a song titled "Edison's Medicine"

huh?

exactly.

Yes, and now look what you've gotten for your troubles, countless "80s rock band named Tesla" posts, LOL!

Was Tesla, Oklahoma named after him?

The Tesla Coil was a great weapon in Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

Please allow your fingers to type out longer responses, if possible. Dunno if your keyboard is too sticky from the Elvis hair goop or whatever...

Edison was hard working, and diligent and brilliant man. However, his ego got in the way of him becoming truly great.

In the end, he got his glory, but he harmed many in the process.

Their "Signs" cover was the only one that I remember:hmmm: What else did they do?

The Tunguska event? Yeah, that was totally Nikola. He was just showing off, yo.

Edison's good, Tesla's better, but my main man -- Leonardo da Vinci -- is the BEST!!

Thomas Edison invented the mall t-shirt kiosk.

Nikola Tesla invented High Basketball IQ.

I would concur with this.

Now there was an arrogant man. His jealousy of Michangelo consumed him during the last years of his life. He went to his grave resentful that he didn't get the contract for the sistine chapel. He considered Michaelangelo a heathren

DaVinci wrote with both hands simultaneously on separate sheets of paper in a mirror script. That alone is pure genius.

Michaelangelo was a douchebag.

It boggles the mind that those two were alive at the same time. Nevermind they knew each other.

Bach and Handel were born in the same year, in the same country.

And they never knew each other.

Cowabunga!

Ate all of the ****ing pizza. **** that guy.

Love Song, Modern Day Cowboy, Comin' Atcha Live

Tesla - Edison's Medicine Lyrics

You're guilty of crime in the first degree,

Second and third as well.

My jury finds you'll be serving your time

When you go straight to hell.



'Cause he was Lord of the Lightning,

Though "socially fright'ning",

But never out to sell.



Their nickels and pence

Meant more than did sense,

And not the sensible thing.



Nor did the man outta time, man outta time.

Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.

Man outta time, man outta time.

All along, world was wrong. You was right.



All that he saw, all he conceived,

They just could not believe.

Steinmetz and Twain were friends that remained,

Along with number three.

He was electromagnetic, completely kinetic,

"New Wizard of the West."

But they swindled and whined that he wasn't our kind,

And said Edison knew best.



He was the man outta time, man outta time.

Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.

Man outta time, man outta time.

Said you was outta your mind!



You took a shot and it did you in.

Edison's medicine.

You played your cards, but you couldn't win.

Edison's medicine.



I spent twelve years of hard time,

More like the best years of my life.

Never heard or read a single word

About "the man" and his "wicked mind."

They'll sell you on Marconi.

Familiar, but a phony.

Story goes they sold their souls

And swore that you'd never know...



About the man outta time, man outta time.

Thought you was crazy. You was one of a kind.

Man outta time, man outta time.

Swore you was outta your mind!



You took a shot and it did you in.

Edison's medicine.

You played your cards, but you couldn't win.

Edison's medicine.

Edison must have had a better fame focus than Tesla. ;)

FYI: If you're interested in Tesla and this time period, Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Against the Day, is set within it. Tesla appears several times. The Tunguska event also plays a prominent role.

Oh this is definitely true.

I was a cook at a restaraunt where Brad Pitt was a dishwasher. He probably doesn't remember me.:rolleyes:

Do Rich Scanlon and Chuck Norris know each other?

Tesla rocked. "Little Suzie" "Signs" "The Love Song" "Hang Tough" "Edisons Machine"

There was an excellent video TLC or THC did on Tesla. He was trying to protect Europe from ze germanz with some kind of electric death ray that no one believed he could make.

The Prestige was a pretty good movie, too. But I still like The Illusionist a bit better.

Wait a minute................Westinghouse was just as instrumental in the usage of AC as Tesla. It was Westinghouse that secured the contract for the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair.

Great...............Now you've gone and made me type my booklearning.

No, they couldn't. I believe the consequences of that encounter were covered by the popular movie series, "Back to the Future." Remember "Biff?"

This is actually the first time I've read "in depth" (if you can call it that) about Tesla (I did have their CD though). Seriously though...what a genious. Its good for him that he lived when he did because I'm guessing that, in today's world, it may be difficult to get permission to use the planet earth as a giant conductor for experiments.

Site needs some work, but the band is greatness.

http://www.teslatheband.com/home.aspx

"Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels."

--Tesla

http://www.electroherbalism.com/Bioe...rsusEdison.htm


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents

I disagree. Unless you consider athiest with sinces of humor that works for the highest bidder, which happened to be the Vatican.
When looking for a picture I see a bunch of webpages saying that Michaelangelo did not create the Swiss Guard uniform, but an official tour guide at the Vatican told us otherwise, and showed us quite a few comical inventions he came up with because he didn't like having to work for the church, but they paid the most. There were quite a few paintings and sculptures pointed out to us where there were priest looking at other mens junk, different people getting urinated on, and I think there was one sculpture of a pope or cardinal or some big kid a few feet above him in the process of dropping a Cleveland steamer on his head.

But what does that do for us now? How did that help society?
I am not saying that he wasn't a genius, but Tesla invented the AC generator in the 1880's, and AC hasn't changed much since then. give me one thing that DaVinci created that is used by a majority of the planet, and hasn't had to evolve far from the original invention in over 120 years?

I also heard that he could make spaghetti with his toes...

They use to but the Haitian erased their memory.

How about Maxwell who gave the formulation for all of electromagnetic theory. Einstein's work is based alot on Maxwell. He lived a little before Tesla. Then there is Faraday a half century earlier who showed that the dynamo and electical engine was possible. I am not going to champion Edison but Tesla engineering processes were built upon Faraday's work. There was the work by the American engineer whose name I forget presently that made a killing engineering electromagnetic cranes that lived before Tesla.

Everyone knows that Mitch was the Real Genius

meh, my grandpa could do that. All it got him was twice the writer's cramp.

the only artist to create masterpieces in painting, sculpture and architecture.

and it's Michelangelo, only douchebags pronounce it as michael...;)

Am I the only one that chuckled a this...

what about the guy who won the contest?

ROFL, Lazlo Holllyfield certainly deserves mention.

Lazlo! That's it!