When we talk about who is the greatest inventor in the world, the first person that comes to mind must be Thomas Edison. He is one of the famous geniuses in the history of human technology. He invented 1,093 invention patents such as the incandescent lamp, phonograph, carbon microphone, movie projector, and camera. He also founded the world's first industrial research laboratory and General Electric Company. He can be said to be a genius with great business acumen. , but why is such a person criticized by later generations because of his struggle with one person? Today, Lao Wei will tell you about the love and hatred between Edison and Tesla.
Tesla was born into a poor family. He had no education and had not yet found a formal job at the age of 24. Because he worked well in a local communications company, he was introduced to General Electric Company in Edison. The two of them were the first to work together. encounter. Once, Edison asked Tesla to fix a problem with the DC generator and promised to give him $1 million as a reward afterwards. However, when Tesla repaired it, Edison said it was just an American joke and was very dissatisfied with Tesla. Tesla was a little fed up with Edison because he was indifferent to his demands. The thing that really turned the two of them against each other was the popularization of direct current and alternating current.
Edison was a big fan of direct current, and Tesla discovered the high efficiency of alternating current and kept promoting the benefits of alternating current. This made Edison very unhappy, and the two began to fight. In order to "hack" alternating current, Edison bribed government officials, changed the death penalty from hanging to alternating current electrocution, and asked actor children to deliberately electrocute puppies and kittens with alternating current to express the dangers of alternating current to the public, while Tesla did not Unfazed, he used the opportunity to power the Columbian Exposition to prove to the world the reliability of alternating current. Despite this, Edison still suppressed this genius among geniuses everywhere, such as the use of radio in the military, the dangers of x-rays, and other ideas put forward by Tesla. He used his position, power and connections to veto all of them. Because Tesla put all his patents into society for free, he remained very poor and lonely in his later years; while Edison was wealthy and married a wife who was 16 years younger than him.
One is a shrewd businessman and the other is a scientist who loves science. In fact, there is no right or wrong, because their purposes are different. Although Tesla had a rough life, his influence on future generations is Very huge, and described his greatness as the "God of Science". As the king of invention, although Edison promoted the progress of human science and technology, it can be seen from his suppression of Tesla that he was also a narrow-minded, People who put profit first. We are not qualified to comment on the merits and demerits of our predecessors. All we can do is stand on the shoulders of our predecessors and continue their unfinished business.