Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read
This is a nice piece. However, are you aware that Edison was kind of an a-hole? Among other things, he got into a Holy War with Nikola Tesla over the emerging standard for Electricity — Edison was pro-Direct Current, Telsa, Alternating Current. To discredit Tesla, and supposedly demonstrate the evils of A/C, Edison would create elaborate stage shows where he would fry animals and objects using A/C. Ultimately, A/C which was found to be safer and more efficient, became the standard for our Electrical Distribution System in the U.S.
