It's ironic this comment is attempting to eliminate comparisons between the two, when it was actually fashionable to let Tesla's story languish in obscurity for nearly 70 years while beautifying Edison towards some sainthood.
As a kid really into science I was a little appaled when I learned how little Tesla was included in curriculum, despite his enormous impact on today's age.
The recent attention on Tesla barely existed 10-12 years ago. I remember reading random websites wondering why he wasn't better known.
Beginning to give him his due has nothing to do with Edison for me, only that Tesla easily has a place right next to Edison and anyone else, which he was denied at the cost of folks like Edison.
In the eyes of some, part of the smell test Edison didn't pass was Tesla appeared genuinely an order of magnitude higher in some cases in innovating entirely new areas and received very little long term recognition for it. Tesla's didn't just make AC, he invented radio, xrays, transmitting electricity wirelessly, and using the ionosphere in new ways. It was straight up mad science perhaps a little like Einstein or Da Vinci.
Edison was a great business man. He did appear to take a prolific spitball approach to innovation in the eyes of some.
Edisons treatment of his contemporaries, can't be explained away when it wasn't held against him ultimately. It's fine to defend one's self, if one is that talented.. why proactively trash others? It didn't seem the same about Tesla, maybe because he wasn't American?
I don't know how Edison's top 10 inventions might compare to Tesla's top 10 innovations.
This is about giving Tesla his due for a society that was focused instead on a cult of personality towards others instead of recognizing things on their merit.
As a kid really into science I was a little appaled when I learned how little Tesla was included in curriculum, despite his enormous impact on today's age.
The recent attention on Tesla barely existed 10-12 years ago. I remember reading random websites wondering why he wasn't better known.
Beginning to give him his due has nothing to do with Edison for me, only that Tesla easily has a place right next to Edison and anyone else, which he was denied at the cost of folks like Edison.
In the eyes of some, part of the smell test Edison didn't pass was Tesla appeared genuinely an order of magnitude higher in some cases in innovating entirely new areas and received very little long term recognition for it. Tesla's didn't just make AC, he invented radio, xrays, transmitting electricity wirelessly, and using the ionosphere in new ways. It was straight up mad science perhaps a little like Einstein or Da Vinci.
Edison was a great business man. He did appear to take a prolific spitball approach to innovation in the eyes of some.
Edisons treatment of his contemporaries, can't be explained away when it wasn't held against him ultimately. It's fine to defend one's self, if one is that talented.. why proactively trash others? It didn't seem the same about Tesla, maybe because he wasn't American?
I don't know how Edison's top 10 inventions might compare to Tesla's top 10 innovations.
This is about giving Tesla his due for a society that was focused instead on a cult of personality towards others instead of recognizing things on their merit.