EPISODE · Jan 26, 2021 · 13 MIN
A Book Review? The Unwritten Book - A history of electricity and cars Nikola Tesla vs. Thomas Edison: Who was the better inventor?
from Pb Living - A daily book review · host Brian
If You Like what we do support us here, https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support Nikola Tesla The Serbian-American scientist was a brilliant and eccentric genius whose inventions enabled modern-day power and mass communication systems. His nemesis and former boss, Thomas Edison, was the iconic American inventor of the light bulb, the phonograph and the moving picture. The two feuding geniuses waged a "War of Currents" in the 1880s over whose electrical system would power the world — Tesla's alternating-current (AC) system or Edison's rival direct-current (DC) electric power. Amongst science nerds, few debates get more heated than the ones that compare Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. So, who was the better inventor?
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