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To be perfectly fair, he did give Tesla a place to start working on AC power, and while I'd still blame him for those killings, he was working under the orders of J.P. Morgan, a banker. The same banker who threatened to sue Westinghouse(the small company he was partnered with, and later "left" in order to allow them to sell AC power without royalty requirements) for "patent infringement" involving AC power, unless they gave over the rights to AC current. Westinghouse founder, George Wesinghouse, would have been unable to afford to win such a case without going under.

J.P. Morgan collects 51% of Edison's stock, changes the name to General Electric, and eventually fires Edison.

From The History Channel's "The Men Who Built America" telling the rise to power of the men who shaped this country after the death of President Lincoln, John Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Angrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, and President Theodore Roosevelt.

Edison promised Tesla a huge amount of cheddar for fixing the problems with his generators and when he succeeded after several months Edison laughed and said "Oh Tesla, you just don't understand our American humor."

Edison invented nothing. He didn't even improve anything. It was his employees whose work he took and claimed credit for.

Incorrect, Edison did invent something, that being the modern usage of the word "Hello" as a greeting, rather than it's previous usage as an expression of surprise

Edison is a dick, and I don't like him, but he did invent or at least help in inventing some seriously important things.
Nikola Tesla is my science husbando, and is perfect. Except that he was pretty crazy before he died.

Yeah, him and Van de Graaff for me.

I like how we can scan the wikipedia page for twenty seconds and make broad, sweeping statements about these mens whole lives and careers

I've done much more research than skimming Wikipedia on Edison.

Yeah, Madican saw a whole documentary on the History Channel.

It was on after Ancient Aliens and before Nostradamus' impact on Christianity.

Also, I find it funny that spell check knows Nostradamus.

I guess I shouldn't tell you that this is entirely due to a single Oatmeal comic.

I like how you're both assuming no one could possibly have done their own research that wasn't solely Wikipedia and the only way anyone would have done said research is after reading a comic strip.

Oh wait, no I don't like that. At all.

I guess all of us are at home in this thread then.

Alright! Things you didn't know!


I searched Tumblr for like 15 minutes trying to find this.

EDIT: Nevermind, I went through all the notes. Tumblr has failed me.

Personally, I would take any sort of information requiring crudely drawn cartoons to complete the point with a small car full of salt, especially when it's the oatmeal.



Slightly related: gigantor the lovable Japanese crime fighting robot was originally a concept for a robot intended to be a weapon against the allied forces. They left this out when it transferred over to the United States...for reasons.

Photo? What photo?

Let's all argue about how you can't go posting quotes that pertain to a photo and not also post the photo that the quote is pertaining to.

I can not stress how much I am angered by your post and its lack of photo.

And not at all unnecessarily so.

Angryangryangry.

Oh so angry.


This page is hilarious.

I'm so depressed, my friend was gonna go back in time and everything.

oh here: Tumblr