For Our Lord’s sweet sake, what kind of individual are you- to agree that a captive elephant in a circus who was harassed into attacking trainers should have been electrocuted to promote Edisons brainless investments? One with that opinion is well equated with the inbred types who originally did put a dumb animal on trial in the KY mtns and hung an elephant there for it’s reaction to abuse. Stuck in the 1800’s. You put an animal down, like one would a lame horse- with care for one of man’s servants.
Edison electrocuted the animal for the grandstanding benefit of Mr. Edison, WHO KNEW HE WAS WRONG all along ABOUT DC current!! That IS THE POINT!
The lengths to which individuals would go to win something that was completely unworkable. JUST LIKE THE VOLT CAR FROM gubmint motors. Edison knew there was not enough conductor metal in the WORLD to distribute DC power (which would require transfer stations every block or so and enormous coils).
I’d be careful whom you refer to as “ninnys”. Owing to lifetime of work experience many here are quite informed on technical topics. And, for reference, you should look up the story of poor old Topsy who WAS AN ANIMAL. Tesla thought Edison a complete ASS for his grandstanding, and glad to see him lose his argument, because he was wrong, and Tesla was right.
Inasmuch as Edison was a major shareholder (which was later found out) in his rival Westinghouse Electric- it makes this inhumane treatment of a dumb animal even more disgusting. All of Edison’s “stopped clock is right once a day,lucky” brilliance aside, he fired Tesla, so that rounds that out. Tesla was the brilliant one.
Look, pal, I asked you what your ninnying and others ninnying had to do with Upton and Edison’s accomplishments. You offered, aw gee, poor tesla, poor elephant.
You are the inbred, since you cannot seem to follow simple logic. The whole thrust of the argument against Upton is that he is at odds with Edison.
Tesla has exactly zero to do with this, yet, you want to get your point across.
Fine, go start a blog, and try to focus next time on the situation at hand.