Can I borrow your time machine?

Tesla was an honorable inventor who deserves much fame and recognition.

That’s the way pretty much all corporate R&D works now. They provide you with the venue and all the resources. You provide the work and the brainpower and when something is patented, they get the lions share of the royalties, but you still get something out of it.

Universities are far more generous, because they pretty much only provide the venue. You bring in all the external funding, which provides for even most of the capital purchases, so the royalties are usually split 50/50.

assholes.

Dear, with the grammar you’re using, I doubt anyone will take you seriously.

And perhaps think a bit before you type. Have you ever read (unbiased pieces, mind you) about Edison? Hmmmm.

Telsa’s contributions to humanity will continue enrich life for literally centuries to come, hopefully Edisons ‘gifts’ will be gone by the middle of this one.
Tesla was in all regards a great man, Edison was in all regards a great asshole.

Sure Edison was a ruthless businessman, but he was *extraordinarily* creative as well over many DECADES. He hired smart people and set them to work on problems he thought had promise. In the early years, he had to do most of the inventing himself, but as his success grew, he was able to hire an increasingly large research staff. The say that he stole his inventions is a pretty unjust characterization.

Tesla was unquestionably brilliant and ultimately proven correct over Edison as far “the battle of the currents” (A.C. v. D.C.) goes. But he was really eccentric to the degree of being a tad wacky, especially in his later years. That doesn’t disparage the tremendous work he did (especially regarding power generation and transmission), but Edison was no slouch either.

Finally, the concrete houses (look at the model and the pic of one under construction) were actually pretty nice — they were not featureless monoliths like one might imagine. Still, people were not quite ready for mass produced houses then, so the project eventually tanked. Fast forward to the late 1940s, when post-War America embraced the rows of identical crap thrown up (like the famous Levittown, Long Island) on the cheap during the housing boom. By the way, most of those Edison cast concrete houses are still standing — I think 10 remain. They are holding up pretty well and most of the owners really like them.

Edison stole that invention from a bloke in 2016 and went back to register it. Everybody in the 2050′s knows this.

it’s a downright shame and the whole reason these exaggerations of edison’s contributions are STILL perpetuated is that americans want to believe an american can take credit for the marvels of modern man kind, refusing to acknowledge anybody from that damn “backwards” former yugoslavia could accomplish anything.

tesla was brilliant, modest, and honest to boot, and it’s humiliating most american high school students have never heard his name, let alone been made aware of his contributions to their daily lives.

i’d gladly piss on edison’s grave over acknowledging anything he has “done.”

Which explains why Hollywood is where it is today. The early movie makers realized they needed to put as much distance between themselves and Edison. Los Angeles and vicinity was the obvious choice. Plenty of sunshine (everything was shot in natural light in those days) and max distance from Edison and his goons.