[QXCharles]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

[incimisiche]

"Miss! Never trust a Jew!"

~Nikola Tesla

[Payodcapy542fro]

he was the greatest scientific mind-EVER ...and einstein the jew gets all the credit

[Olphander]

where would we be now

if Tesla and Da Vinci got together ( early 1900's ) with unlimited $$$


Tesla and Leonardo are my 2 " what if / lets try this " heros

[Sironimoll]

What's with the ego fixation on Edison there?

Makes the creator look like a fruitcake...

Edison's true success, like that of his friend Henry Ford, was in his ability to maximize profits through establishment of mass-production systems and intellectual property rights. George Westinghouse and Edison became adversaries because of Edison's promotion of direct current (DC) for electric power distribution instead of the more easily transmitted alternating current (AC) system invented by Nikola Tesla and promoted by Westinghouse. Unlike DC, AC could be stepped up to very high voltages with transformers, sent over thinner and cheaper wires, and stepped down again at the destination for distribution to users. AC is what you pay for.

[bonyrek]

our world is actualy run by a marriage of AC and DC. I think its something neither man ever imagined happening. AC is whats sent to your house, its whats running through the power lines, it was runs the world. But almost everything electronic actualy uses DC power by stepping down and regulating that AC. Otherwise your computer would be turning itself on and off about 60 times a second.


Nik wasnt made for the world he lived in. I suspect he suffered from Aspergers syndrome early in his life as an inventor and eventualy just went bat shit crazy. Sad as it is, if he had learned the art of bullshit, lying, politicing and and profit, we'd probably be beaming ourselves to distant planets right now. Ok, thats a big exageration, but such is the fate of great men, it seems

[Lhiistyssdds]

What's with the ego fixation on Edison there? Not so much "ego fixation" - Edison truly WAS a douche. When Tesla started working for Edison, Edison told Tesla that he would pay him $5,000 if he could solve a problem dealing (if I remember correctly) with motors or electrical power distribution. Tesla arrived at the solution, got it working, and went to Edison for his reward. Edison told him "You just don't understand our American sense of humor" and didn't give Tesla a penny.

Fuck Edison... cheap prick dishonest opportunist douche!

[Vitoethiche]

Fuck Edison... cheap prick dishonest opportunist douche!

And a jew.

[Sironimoll]

Edison told him "You just don't understand our American sense of humor" and didn't give Tesla a penny.

Fuck Edison... cheap prick dishonest opportunist douche!

Sounds like he was trying to teach Telsla a lesson in American capitalism of the day.

Guess there was no record of the promissory words exchanged...

[Sironimoll]

And a jew.

A jew?

Looks like he tried to put the jews on a leash, No?


Inventing a motion picture camera that worked properly was the easy part for Edison. Keeping the Jews from using the camera without paying him royalties for his invention was the hard part.

As soon as the German born Jew, Carl Laemmle found out about motion pictures, he started figuring ways to exploit the new invention. Efforts by Laemmle and other Jews to deprive Edison of his fees for using his cameras forced Edison and other movie makers like Dickson, Casler, Koopman, Long, Smith, Klein and Marion to form a protective association called the TRUST.
As fast as the Jews could get their hands on Edison's equipment and started using it, the Trust would file lawsuits against them to stop their illegally using his patented equipment. http://www.erichufschmid.net/TFC/Edi...-the-Jews.html

[Zpxbawtz]

The man who financed the construction of the tower shut it down when he learned that there would be no way to regulate the energy and therefore it wouldn't make money. I call BS on this. Of course there would be ways to regulate the energy. Of course there would be ways to make money with this technology. Just off the top of my head, meters on the receiving end could be built to track energy use, and a bill would be sent by the owner of the tower each month. Competition between tower owners would certainly reduce energy cost, but energy is also a very high-demand commodity, and people are certainly willing to pay for it.

[nmnrIjGB]

Not so much "ego fixation" - Edison truly WAS a douche. When Tesla started working for Edison, Edison told Tesla that he would pay him $5,000 if he could solve a problem dealing (if I remember correctly) with motors or electrical power distribution. Tesla arrived at the solution, got it working, and went to Edison for his reward. Edison told him "You just don't understand our American sense of humor" and didn't give Tesla a penny.

Fuck Edison... cheap prick dishonest opportunist douche!

Somebody has been reading The 48 Laws of Power

[Averti$ingGuru]

where would we be now

if Tesla and Da Vinci got together ( early 1900's ) with unlimited $$$


Tesla and Leonardo are my 2 " what if / lets try this " heros

i had a chance to work with a few comparably gifted engineers in Silicon Valley, and a few i watched "from afar" - never worked directly worked with them.

it is a privilege to work with people like that, or even to have known them. i learned a lot from them.

fortunately one - Bill O. - was 'normal' (laid back, not obnoxious), he simply ran rings around everybody in the field of microwave instrumentation. that engineering team basically designed the instrument set that facilitated the development of current day wireless.


one other example - Carl Rosendahl, started Pacific Data Images in the early 1980's, which was later sold to Spielberg and is now Dreamworks Animation. Carl developed the television & animation hardware (like a Radius Video Vision) and the software (like 3D Studio Max) in the 1980's. To do just one of those things is extraordinary; to do both is near God-like.

I would have to compare Bill O's skill level and Carl Rosendahl's skill level to that of Edison & Tesla.

[Assunkkensatt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_YSF...=11&playnext=2

[Olphander]

Thomas Edison was an inventor who accumulated 2,332[1] patents worldwide for his inventions. 1,093 of Edison's patents were in the United States, but other patents were approved in countries around the globe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Edison_patents


from what i understand
Edison hired the best brains he could find
and when THEY invented or discovered something

Edison would run down to the patent office and put his name on it


fuck you Edison

and all your descendants living off your " idea stealing " name


do we have a thread on " intellectual property " ?