Forbes article on Tesla and Edison..

[HAC]

a proper perspective..

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesla-wasnt-god-and-thomas-edison-wasnt-the-devil/

Cheers
Harold

[VampirateMace]

I suspected as much. If you think about it, they were completely diffrent people with diffrent goals and strengths, who really never should have been compared in the way they are. Like all historical figures the myths and facts surrounding them have become a bit cloudy.

[Atterton]

It does annoy me how Tesla is seen as the messiah by some. Nice to see some balance to this.

[Lady Chrystal]

Interesting stuff.

Thanks for posting.

[Birdnest]

Quite entertaining ...

The truth's in the article bear this point .... a great mind can come up with loads of new and useful ideas, but only a true genius can refine them and muster the resources to bring them to practicality.

Mr. Edison was a master of the latter (mustering, refining and whatnot)

'ol Mark Twain's quote really spells that out.

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an aside - the dangers of AC vs DC is like comparing the difference of being roasted by kerosine or whale oil - either way, you are roasted.  (I've been shocked by both, worked with both, and they both hurt ... a lot). Edison and Tesla were both right, and they were both wrong.

[Lachlan_MacAuslander]

Turns out the Forbes article is a response to a recent comic by The Oatmeal -

 Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived

The author of the comic has posted his own rebuttal to the Forbes article -

 Response to the Forbes article

And so it goes...

[VampirateMace]

Yes, Lachlan, I saw that.

I'd acturally read The Oatmeal comic before that too, and thought a couple of times, "Wait, that isn't right."

[Augustus Longeye]

I think it's turning out rather amusingly.
The Oatmeal is known for being hyperbolic to the point of absurdity. If you ever doubted that, look at the video recently released (which I can't even post the name of for language NSFW-ness).
~Longeye~