August 31, 2007

• Cracked.com article

  http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2354&pageid=2
  
  Thomas Edison

  What He's Remembered For
  Invented radio, microwaves, primitive radar systems, the lightbulb and electricity

  Why You Should Hate Him
  He did not
  invent the light bulb. Edison was not the smartest scientist around—not
  by a long shot. He did, however, hire a brilliant man named Nikola
  Tesla, who luckily was.

  Tesla is responsible for radio,
  microwaves, primitive radar systems and the electricity we use today,
  which Edison gets credit for. The truth is that Edison hired Tesla to
  redesign his electrical generators. Tesla did, but when he asked for
  the $50,000 he was promised, Edison replied, and this is a direct
  quote, “Tesla, you don't understand our American humor," and paid him
  only in middle fingers.

  Tesla
  quit and tried to strengthen his electrical discoveries in an effort to
  provide free energy for the entire world, but Edison and his thugs at
  General Electric devoted time not spent on stealing patents to making
  sure that the rest of the scientific community thought Tesla was crazy
  and dangerous. Tesla died alone and in serious amounts of debt. Edison
  died on a pile of money in a “Suck it, Tesla" T-shirt that he did not
  design.

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