[devere]

“Tesla was not exactly a partner and fought like hell to get all of his money from Westinghouse.”

Tesla was no businessman at all. He was a somewhat eccentric and very brilliant engineering genius. The world still runs on Tesla’s ideas, and the future will include more of his ideas that have not yet been realized. Edison was a very hardworking inventor and very talented businessman; but he was no Tesla.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

As always a great article from Dr Sowell. But it was Nikola Tesla and his partner George Westinghouse who brought us electricity, far more than Thomas Edison did.

“Tesla was not exactly a partner and fought like hell to get all of his money from Westinghouse.”

Tesla was no businessman at all. He was a somewhat eccentric and very brilliant engineering genius. The world still runs on Tesla’s ideas, and the future will include more of his ideas that have not yet been realized. Edison was a very hardworking inventor and very talented businessman; but he was no Tesla.

I think that the young person who wants to be an inventor thinks of Tesla as a model - but in reality the real inventing happens when you figure out how to make a practical light bulb, and then found General Electric to make the bulbs, and Consolidated Edison electric power company to deliver power to the bulbs you sold the customer.

Just coming up with the idea of electric light is not that big a deal. Just like it used to be said that it was a dull week when nobody announced a new technology that was better than the transistor.