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To: ShadowAce
No mention of Tesla's ideas for energy beam weapons and wireless power. That guy could think big.

Edison might have been a genius at marketing and self-promotion, but Tesla was the real engineering master.

If Edison had his way, we'd all still be using DC.

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life. --Nikola Tesla

9 posted on 01/26/2010 9:37:58 AM PST by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner
No mention of Tesla's ideas for energy beam weapons and wireless power. That guy could think big.

Tesla could also be incredibly wrong (wireless power), stubborn (wireless power), and weird.

Edison might have been a genius at marketing and self-promotion, but Tesla was the real engineering master.

Edison was an all around genius and optimist. Tesla would have been better off remaining Edison's employee or partner, rather than trying to emulate him.

If Edison had his way, we'd all still be using DC.

I use lots of DC every day. I bet you do too. It's not good for long distance transmission, but neither was Tesla's wireless power.

16 posted on 01/26/2010 6:44:27 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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