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Tesla uncovered some of the basic mysteries of electricity.

Edison made practical applications of those laws.

Thus without Tesla, Edison couldn't have done anything.

TESLA.

Edison just made people do his bidding and took Tesla's ideas. Also #$%@ Edison cause he used his experiments to kill pets and innocent animals!

HoboHob wrote:

Tesla uncovered some of the basic mysteries of electricity.

Edison made practical applications of those laws.

Thus without Tesla, Edison couldn't have done anything.

TESLA.

That logic is pretty flawed.
We wouldn't ride horses if Karl Benz didn't invent the car.
Some other guy would have invented it a few years later anyway.

Despite Tesla's great ideas, he never really managed to turn any of them into important things. Meanwhile, Edison invented not only the lightbulb but also the phonograph, plus 1,000 more things.

White Hot wrote:

Despite Tesla's great ideas, he never really managed to turn any of them into important things. Meanwhile, Edison invented not only the lightbulb but also the phonograph, plus 1,000 more things.

Technically, the lightbulb was an innovation based on his friend's design to make it more practical.

Thomas Edision Invented The Light Bulb

Bigcheecho wrote:

White Hot wrote:

Despite Tesla's great ideas, he never really managed to turn any of them into important things. Meanwhile, Edison invented not only the lightbulb but also the phonograph, plus 1,000 more things.

Technically, the lightbulb was an innovation based on his friend's design to make it more practical.

While this is true, earlier light bulbs did not last for nearly as long.

Nikola Tesla invented alternating current, which is now used as the primary method of powering almost everything. Also, Tesla forfeited all of his rights to alternating current to his investor to prevent the company from going under and so that alternating current could be supplied to everyone in order to better our society.

While Edison did invent the light bulb, he refused to accept alternating current as superior (which it was) and he and his investor, J.P. Morgan, led propaganda campaigns to destroy the reputation of alternating current in order to return a profit. Ultimately, however, Edison and direct current were dropped by J.P. Morgan, who changed Edison's electric company into General Electric and used alternating current in their generators.

So Tesla wins in my mind.

USABxBOOYO wrote:

Nikola Tesla invented alternating current, which is now used as the primary method of powering almost everything. Also, Tesla forfeited all of his rights to alternating current to his investor to prevent the company from going under and so that alternating current could be supplied to everyone in order to better our society.

While Edison did invent the light bulb, he refused to accept alternating current as superior (which it was) and he and his investor, J.P. Morgan, led propaganda campaigns to destroy the reputation of alternating current in order to return a profit. Ultimately, however, Edison and direct current were dropped by J.P. Morgan, who changed Edison's electric company into General Electric and used alternating current in their generators.

So Tesla wins in my mind.

Saying he invented the lightbulb gives him too much credit - he invented a new type of lightbulb.

Right after watching this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ1Mz7kGVf0 I saw this thread.

People are only as smart as the book they learn from so Telsa wins

USABxBOOYO wrote:

Nikola Tesla invented alternating current, which is now used as the primary method of powering almost everything. Also, Tesla forfeited all of his rights to alternating current to his investor to prevent the company from going under and so that alternating current could be supplied to everyone in order to better our society.

While Edison did invent the light bulb, he refused to accept alternating current as superior (which it was) and he and his investor, J.P. Morgan, led propaganda campaigns to destroy the reputation of alternating current in order to return a profit. Ultimately, however, Edison and direct current were dropped by J.P. Morgan, who changed Edison's electric company into General Electric and used alternating current in their generators.

So Tesla wins in my mind.

AC sux. Why? Because naturally generators output DC, we then have to waste a ton of DC power converting it to AC power. And guess what? At least a third of the appliances in your house will turn that AC power back into DC! What a waste of electricity, if everything was kept DC we would save a ton of power.

The only real advantage AC has over DC is that it can be conducted for longer distances without losing as much energy.

HoboHob wrote:

USABxBOOYO wrote:

Nikola Tesla invented alternating current, which is now used as the primary method of powering almost everything. Also, Tesla forfeited all of his rights to alternating current to his investor to prevent the company from going under and so that alternating current could be supplied to everyone in order to better our society.

While Edison did invent the light bulb, he refused to accept alternating current as superior (which it was) and he and his investor, J.P. Morgan, led propaganda campaigns to destroy the reputation of alternating current in order to return a profit. Ultimately, however, Edison and direct current were dropped by J.P. Morgan, who changed Edison's electric company into General Electric and used alternating current in their generators.

So Tesla wins in my mind.

AC sux. Why? Because naturally generators output DC, we then have to waste a ton of DC power converting it to AC power. And guess what? At least a third of the appliances in your house will turn that AC power back into DC! What a waste of electricity, if everything was kept DC we would save a ton of power.

The only real advantage AC has over DC is that it can be conducted for longer distances without losing as much energy.

You clearly don't know what you're talking about. DC generators output DC, AC generators output AC. The simplest generator I could make would be an AC generator. I'm not even going to read the rest of your post because the first part was so blatantly wrong and ill-informed.

Tesla simplily because i can really hurt people with his Tesla Coil...