THE
GOD
Edison is a very good example of a Non-Geek who operated in Geek space. He believed in gauging innovations for how much could they apparently make in the market. He was neither a mathematician nor a scientist—he just believed he could hire people who would do that for him.
Edison was not a geek,
He was a CEO.
Tesla was known for discovering new amazing things and then forgetting to write it down. Edison was known for rushing to the patent office, once his employees had something.
After his fall-out with Edison, Tesla started his work on alternating systems. This caused a feud, with Edison because at that time he was trying to sell the world his “direct current system” idea. Edison’s DC-system required a power plant every square mile and thus could not transmit electricity very far.AC systems
used thinner wires, had higher voltages and could transmit energy across long distances with ease.
So now for the big question: What did Edison Do?
Families living in the neighborhood near Edison’s Laboratory began to notice that their pets were beginning to disappear. This was because Edison was paying twenty-five cents a head for live dogs and cats.
He then put these dogs and cats on display and publicly electrocuted them using AC wires. His goal was to publicly smear Tesla’s ideas and to convince people that such systems were unsafe for house-hold purposes.
In short: the only thing Edison pioneered was douchebaggery.
Ever heard of the man called Marconi? He was the person who supposedly invented radio and was awarded a Nobel for his work in that field. The fact that eludes most people is that his work is totally plagiarized from Tesla’s previous papers on radio-channeling.
As seen at Oatmeal