Thomas Edison (derogatory)
at least Edison has a legacy worth mentioning
I mean, he was still a capitalist pos of the highest order as well as sympathetic to the antisemitism that was well within the Overton window in those days.
!topsy!<
Topsy did nothing wrong.
He’s worse. Edison never managed to steal Tesla’s name.
Nah just his work and credibility
If I see a headline that Elon is driving other companies’ cars into elephants to try to show how dangerous other cars are, I’ll have to check to see if it’s an onion article.
It probably won’t be.
Topsy was electrocuted at the request of the ASPCA because they deemed it more humane than just giving her a bunch of cyanide and hanging her.
Edison Studios, which has about as much relation to the man as Tesla Motors Inc. does their namesake, filmed the event.
The War of the Currents was a decade previous and between Edison and Westinghouse.
Edison and Tesla wrote each other friendly letters and spoke well of each other in public.
Tesla has such a weird reputation. Entertainment is not history.
So you’re saying Tesla did NOT invent a cloning device?
When a Tesla gets stolen, do they call it an Edison?
The tagline for Edison motors is “Stealing Tesla’s ideas”
Except if Elon went deaf he’d never stop bitching and moaning about it.
So you’re saying he invented the electric car right? jk. Edison, probably would have creamed his pants for an opportunity to create a government position to eliminate his competitors.
Edison did abuse the government enforced patent system to eliminate his competitors.
Same as it ever was.
Where is that large automobile?
These days I’d say Henry Ford, which Id argue is even worse.
Remember when the ADL complimented him as ‘the Henry Ford of our day’, and then walked it back as organization members pointed out that side of Ford’s legacy and then he spent the next few years proving those folks extremely right?
More like P.T. Barnum
No, PT Barnum was at least entertaining. Sure, he just wanted to take your money, but he didn’t kill people in the process and you got a pretty reasonable value for paying admission.
He was mostly lucky in that regard. The amount of fires Barnum had with only animals dying and not people is pretty impressive. He had at least five buildings burn down alone. One of his fires at the American museum had a nice effect due to the cold weather in New York at the time.
It took a while after his death before one of the big top shows really went up in smoke with significant loss of life.
In his defense the concept of fire safety was still being figured out.
