Marco Tempest: The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla

[wundermaus]

This is one of my personal favorite presentations ever on TedTalks and coincidentally on the subject of one of my favorite people (Genius, Scientist, Inventor, and Shaman) to have ever lived on earth: Nikola Tesla.

[90-percent]

1. Nikola

Nikola kicked Thomas Edison's ass in the days before America even had such a thing as an electric grid. Edison was invested in DC current to power America, and Nikola was an advocate of alternating current.

DC is utterly impractical for anything bigger than a local neighborhood, but AC can supply power for hundreds or thousands of miles.

Nikola was his era's Frank Zappa of electrical science! Edison was perhaps better at self promotion than inventing? Plus he had a large crew of people that supplied the 99% perspiration to his 1% inspiration. Like modern corporations, Edison would have left a much smaller mark on history, if he hadn't hired good people to do much of his work.

-90% Jimmy