[TheForge] Light bulbs and shop power

[Andrew Vida]

On 8/3/2012 7:37 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
> Yeah, edison was an SOB but Tesla had less sense for business than a beaver
> has for saving trees,

Yes, Tesla was very naive.  But he had Edison beaten hands down in the 
smarts department.

> 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.

This I do not recall as ever having read, and to be honest I find it 
less than credible.  I may be wrong, but George Westinghouse even 
screwed Tesla in the end under pressure from outside elements.
>
> 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.

Yes and no.  I agree that he should have had better sense and not 
trusted the likes of vermin such as Edison, but that does not justify 
the outright theft that was perpetrated against him.  We can assign 
guilt to all sides on this one, methinks.

>
> 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
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>
>> 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.
>
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