Tesla vs Edison: should power flow in waves or hold steady?

NIKOLA TESLA vs THOMAS EDISON go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

NIKOLA TESLA

My alternating current leaps across continents on a whisper of copper, while your direct current gasps and dies a mile from its dynamo.

THOMAS EDISON

And your beautiful whisper needs a genius to tame it; my direct current lit a working street while you chased pigeons and lightning.

NIKOLA TESLA

I gave the world a rotating field it will use for centuries, Thomas, and asked nothing but wonder in return.

THOMAS EDISON

Wonder does not meet a payroll, Nikola: I filed a thousand patents and built the future you merely imagined.

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