Re: Conversations About Science and Physics
I agree 100%. Edison was America's darling, and deservedly so, but the smear campaign against Tesla's vision for AC was downright nasty. As history has shown, Tesla was right and the power grids we have are proof.
These are from the entrance to Niagara Falls.
Telsa was a genius, there is little doubt but he had a few issues with some things and was apparently very vocal about them. These include overweight people, Einstein's theory of relativity, atom theory and apparently fashion. The atom theory one was a bit of a surprise...
Edision, the more I learned about him the more I realised he was simply a business man more than an inventor. He was very much involved with the 'race to the patent office' nonsense. His inventions were all about business opportunity rather than science. Apparently he wasn't very keen on those who were 'learned'.
A side note -
Being in the electrical field for over 20 years I've come to learn a thing or two about it.
Though AC is great, in many ways it's highly impractical, especially in our day and age of digital technology. It also has many issues with it's transmission.
HVDC transmission is becoming more common, especially between countries and 'separate' grids. It's not perfect either but it goes to show that DC voltage was always a good alternative and to me it was possibly the better one looking at our world today.
Smear campaigns went both ways back then. The DC smear has been around for some time and it's only been fairly recently that it's proven to be false.
I'm a first-year so I didn't learn about virology or bacteriology in uni , but I already know a lot from school and I read a bit , so ask me
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