The Current War Trailer (2019) Movieclips Trailers

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I can't wait to see it. Being an old telephone man and dealing with DC powered telephone offices (48v) with batteries the size of refrigerators supplying thousands of amps to huge telephone switches and now placing a 9Kw system of solar panels(29) on my roof, the difference between Edison and Tesla is astounding.

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The Current War Trailer (2019) Movieclips Trailers (Original post)	HAB911	Oct 2019	OP
Edison was a marketer	orangecrush	Oct 2019	#1
Tesla was a brilliant engineer who held some truly antiscientific, even mystical, views.	eppur_se_muova	Oct 2019	#3
Accurate on both counts.	orangecrush	Oct 2019	#4
It's a not very well known period in science history...	Wounded Bear	Oct 2019	#2
Can't wait to see this one..	mitch96	Oct 2019	#5
dewsgirl posted on GD	HAB911	Oct 2019	#6

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Tue Oct 22, 2019, 08:01 AM

orangecrush (16,501 posts)

1. Edison was a marketer

Tesla was a scientist.

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Response to orangecrush (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 22, 2019, 12:39 PM

eppur_se_muova (35,253 posts)

3. Tesla was a brilliant engineer who held some truly antiscientific, even mystical, views.

He never accepted modern physical theories of light, to give only one example. Without modern EM and quantum theory, he was left behind by scientific progress.

As for Edison ... he introduced the electric chair in an effort to "prove" Tesla's AC was dangerous, and his DC supposedly was safer. The first attempted execution by electricity was horribly botched, and his employees had experimented on many animals to try to get it right. Not most people's idea of a nice guy.

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Tue Oct 22, 2019, 05:50 PM

orangecrush (16,501 posts)