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View ArticleBy: Heidi
Just read a good kid’s fiction book about Edison and Tesla’s decendents continuing their battle: Edison’s Gold by Watson.
View ArticleBy: Dan
@ JP: Nikola Tesla was an ethnic Serb, born in then Austria-Hungary (nowadays Croatia). In fact, Tesla’s father was an Serbian Orthdox priest. There is also Nikola Tesla’s museum in Belgrade. I do not...
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[...] Despite all of Edison’s efforts … the superiority of the AC current was too much for Edison and his DC system to overcome. (source) [...]
View ArticleBy: Jim M. Gau
Edison did that to all those poor defenseless animals? For that, someone should have connected electrodes to him and electrocuted him until he was dead. Now that would have been a demonstration worth...
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“an AC current of 6,000 volts was sent coursing through the elephant.” Electric current is not measured in Volts. Electric current is measured in Amperes. Electric potential is measured in Volts. My...
View ArticleBy: Sue
Tesla rocked! Too bad Edison’s ego saw Tesla as a threat-he certainly could have learned a lot from him and maybe those defensless animals could have been saved.
View ArticleBy: baby buster
tesla was a poop. Eddie was the only competiter xoxoxoxxoxxoxx gossip girl
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