Davel23 to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 14 days agoElon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do.message-square32arrow-up1775file-text
arrow-up1775message-squareElon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do.Davel23 to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 14 days agomessage-square32file-text
minus-square@Klear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•13 days agoNot sure if the video you linked addresses is but I want to add that the whole Edison vs Tesla internet thing was started a The Oatmeal comic, which was packed with inaccuracies, exaggerations and outright lies.
minus-square@turmacar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•13 days agoPopularized definitely, he was working off an at the time recent pop history book about Tesla. Tesla’s been the subject of a lot of weird counter-cultural co-opting since his death. Kinda like Che but for electricity instead of marxism.
Not sure if the video you linked addresses is but I want to add that the whole Edison vs Tesla internet thing was started a The Oatmeal comic, which was packed with inaccuracies, exaggerations and outright lies.
Popularized definitely, he was working off an at the time recent pop history book about Tesla.
Tesla’s been the subject of a lot of weird counter-cultural co-opting since his death. Kinda like Che but for electricity instead of marxism.