Tesla....

[Zod]

This all true?

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

[4Corners]

Who?

[Mrs Pantherfan]

he's got such a manly mustache....grrrrr

[Guest]

The tower thing, in NY, would never have worked and was plagued with problems. It was still there fairly recently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower

The rest though....yep he was a genius.

And Edison's Medicine (by Tesla) has one of the best rock intros.

[logic1977]

Wouldn't surprise me if all of that were true.

[Davidson Deac II]

So Edison was basically the Steve Jobs of his day, while Tesla was the Steve Wozniak equivalent.

Except that Jobs and Wozniak got along better. :)

[Wither]

I can't read all of it. Looks decently accurate.

[pstall]

Read American Genesis and get back to me mortals.

[Razzy]

I didn't read it all, but if it's about Edison stealing Tesla's idea, yes it's true. Thomas Edison, while a gifted man, was better at stealing the ideas of others than inventing his own. Edison was one of the first "businessmen" to really effectively use media slander to bankrupt his competitors in order to obtain their patents. Edison basically ran a smear campaign against AC current electricity so he could later use it.

[DC Amp]

My old buddy Nick! I'm a fan.

[Wither]

I'm curious as to what part we didn't read that is ridiculous, funny and not true, because there has to be something in there. After all, Zod posted this.

[Iceberg Slim]

thought this was common knowledge...if Tesla' ideas took hold with respect to energy verse Edison, the world would be a completely different place

[Scrumtrilescent]

In fairness, the comic did downplay how batshit crazy he was. But, that's the name of the game.

[Mother Grabber]

If physics had a mythos, the greater gods would be:

Issac Newton - God of Classical Physics, great father of all

Tesla - God of E&M

Einstein - God of Modern Physics

Steven Hawking - God of Theoretical/Astro Physics