[TheForge] Light bulbs and shop power

[Jerry Frost]

Yeah, edison was an SOB but Tesla had less sense for business than a beaver 
has for saving trees, he all but gave up all his rights to AC, Radio, TV and 
such without any help. Heck Tesla was an outright thief, he converted 
virtually all the profit he owed Westinghouse for AC generation and 
transmission to build the Wyrdcliff power transmission tower. I'll happily 
accept corrections on missed details, say Westinghouse NOT being the company 
that got snookered by backing Tesla.

In short, Tesla had a better product on all counts, cheaper to produce, 
safer, more and efficiently easily moved over a distance and he STILL lost 
it. Nobody's fault but his own.

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Light bulbs and shop power


> Edison was a rotten SOB.  He robbed Tesla blind and that electrocution
> deal on Coney Island earned him a place in hell.
>
> On 8/3/2012 7:47 AM, Ron Childers wrote:
>> They hold water- Edison said so. (: His biography is interesting; he had
>> over 1,000 patents and was a very precocious kid but for some reason he
>> was hung up on DC electric power. I think it was Tesla who developed AC.
>> My grandfather told me Edison said radio waves would eventually
>> interfere with the weather patterns. If our shops were DC the cables
>> would be huge.