This is false. Here’s an exhaustively researched 4.5 hour video on the topic if you’re interested in what Edison was really like (an incredibly hard worker who was much kinder to his employees than was usual for the time, and who changed inventing from an art into a science), and the by-all-accounts positive nature of his very brief working relationship with Tesla.
Edit: I am absolutely gobsmacked that this comment is getting hammered so hard in a science community of all places.
I guess the misinformation-fueled hate boner for Edison is just too strong for the truth.
yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works
on 12 Feb 22:37
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Got one not from a channel that wholesale publishes sponsored work?
Edison was a monster by every contemporary and modern account. I don’t know who paid him to narrate nonsense, but let’s not rehabilitate one of the worst humans on the planet.
That pop “article” is like 300 words long, contains almost no information whatsoever, and every bit of info it does contain is also fully spelled out in the video I linked - that Edison wasn’t a single-minded visionary, but rather a ridiculously hard worker who worked collectively with his employees to create inventions scientifically.
The video also goes into detail about how he crafted a public persona to make sure his shop continued to have access to funding to keep up his inventing, and in any case, I’m not quite sure how that’s supposed to be the nail in the coffin for his reputation, since it was practically required for him to stay in business, and the inventions they came up with (or, better put, the ingenious, practical solutions to the problems they were trying to solve) were revolutionary.
Nothing in that article impugns Edison’s name whatsoever - if anything, it fully supports the picture of Edison put forward by the video I linked.
Also, Today I Found Out has a rating of “High - Least Biased” on Media Bias Fact Check mediabiasfactcheck.com/today-i-found-out/, so I think I’m just going to ignore your conspiracy-mongering about them.
JackbyDev@programming.dev
on 13 Feb 06:05
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It’s not exactly proof of character but it’s pretty easy to verify that Edison’s patent of DC Electricity was NOT novel or new as a concept but did allow him to create a monopoly and massively enrich himself while also increasing costs on the average person of his time.
This is lended to by the fact that in children’s books and schools in the USA Edison was portrayed as some magical fictional character who tied a key to a kite to invent electricity. Clearly there is a campaign made to make him look like the hero he isn’t. Nah that was Franklin.
But it doesn’t stop there, Edison had many patents that almost all built on the works of others going back decades, although I do think that he did more work than he stole on audio recording and transmitting, but he also patented the Telegraph like a hundred times even though the Cook and Wheatstone Electric Telegraph existed over 50 years earlier: a time before Edison was even born.
He was an OK inventor but he was a cutthroat businessman.
Machinist@lemmy.world
on 13 Feb 03:10
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Pedant moment. Benjamin Franklin was the key and kite guy. Edison was the lightbulb guy.
JackbyDev@programming.dev
on 13 Feb 06:06
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This is lended to by the fact that in children’s books and schools in the USA Edison was portrayed as some magical fictional character who tied a key to a kite to invent electricity.
You made this comment after the edit, which is kind of weird
JackbyDev@programming.dev
on 13 Feb 20:16
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I did not. Maybe there was a delay due to federation stuff making it seem like that. Or maybe you edited it after I loaded the page but before I posted.
Soulg@sh.itjust.works
on 13 Feb 00:10
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No opinion on Edison at all but what’s your problem with the whistler verse? They’ve been very good in my experience.
StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 13 Feb 02:56
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I love it when you get millionaire (who would likely be billionaire) bootlickers in comments like this because you can almost always go back and check their replies. Low and behold, within the first few posts you immediatey get MRA shite.
They also cancelled their tours and told their audience to practice proper covid protections.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world
on 13 Feb 22:13
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They’re generally better and more reasonable people than anyone would’ve ever guessed. Their fans are too. Generally they’re just traumatized lower class Midwesterners with their hearts in the right places in my experience.
Jhogenbaum@leminal.space
on 13 Feb 00:37
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This is false. Here’s an exhaustively researched 4.5 hour video on the topic if you’re interested in what Edison was really like (an incredibly hard worker who was much kinder to his employees than was usual for the time, and who changed inventing from an art into a science), and the by-all-accounts positive nature of his very brief working relationship with Tesla.
Edit: I am absolutely gobsmacked that this comment is getting hammered so hard in a science community of all places.
I guess the misinformation-fueled hate boner for Edison is just too strong for the truth.
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Got one not from a channel that wholesale publishes sponsored work?
Edison was a monster by every contemporary and modern account. I don’t know who paid him to narrate nonsense, but let’s not rehabilitate one of the worst humans on the planet.
Should be really easy for you to produce some of this evidence that he was a monster then.
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Here’s an introduction to Thomas Edison, theconversation.com/thomas-edison-visionary-geniu…
It has actual sources, and isn’t a 4.5 hour sponsored video from whatever estate is trying to do PR for the name Edison.
That pop “article” is like 300 words long, contains almost no information whatsoever, and every bit of info it does contain is also fully spelled out in the video I linked - that Edison wasn’t a single-minded visionary, but rather a ridiculously hard worker who worked collectively with his employees to create inventions scientifically.
The video also goes into detail about how he crafted a public persona to make sure his shop continued to have access to funding to keep up his inventing, and in any case, I’m not quite sure how that’s supposed to be the nail in the coffin for his reputation, since it was practically required for him to stay in business, and the inventions they came up with (or, better put, the ingenious, practical solutions to the problems they were trying to solve) were revolutionary.
Nothing in that article impugns Edison’s name whatsoever - if anything, it fully supports the picture of Edison put forward by the video I linked.
Also, Today I Found Out has a rating of “High - Least Biased” on Media Bias Fact Check mediabiasfactcheck.com/today-i-found-out/, so I think I’m just going to ignore your conspiracy-mongering about them.
Doesn’t that the site get a lot of flak though?
It’s not exactly proof of character but it’s pretty easy to verify that Edison’s patent of DC Electricity was NOT novel or new as a concept but did allow him to create a monopoly and massively enrich himself while also increasing costs on the average person of his time.
This is lended to by the fact that in children’s books and schools in the USA Edison was portrayed as some magical fictional character who tied a key to a kite to invent electricity. Clearly there is a campaign made to make him look like the hero he isn’t.Nah that was Franklin.But it doesn’t stop there, Edison had many patents that almost all built on the works of others going back decades, although I do think that he did more work than he stole on audio recording and transmitting, but he also patented the Telegraph like a hundred times even though the Cook and Wheatstone Electric Telegraph existed over 50 years earlier: a time before Edison was even born.
He was an OK inventor but he was a cutthroat businessman.
Pedant moment. Benjamin Franklin was the key and kite guy. Edison was the lightbulb guy.
Sorry yeh I had those confused.
That story is associated with Benjamin Franklin.
You made this comment after the edit, which is kind of weird
I did not. Maybe there was a delay due to federation stuff making it seem like that. Or maybe you edited it after I loaded the page but before I posted.
No opinion on Edison at all but what’s your problem with the whistler verse? They’ve been very good in my experience.
I love it when you get millionaire (who would likely be billionaire) bootlickers in comments like this because you can almost always go back and check their replies. Low and behold, within the first few posts you immediatey get MRA shite.
What’s your source, then? And no, a webcomic written by massive douchebag doesn’t count.
ICP wouldn’t approve of those people.
Yeah. It was really jarring seeing a Jugallo being depicted as Elon Musk. They’d probably beat the shit out of most any tech bro.
Say what you will about ICP, I’m not a fan. However, the lead guy endorsed Biden or Harris because of his mother and her rights.
They also cancelled their tours and told their audience to practice proper covid protections.
They’re generally better and more reasonable people than anyone would’ve ever guessed. Their fans are too. Generally they’re just traumatized lower class Midwesterners with their hearts in the right places in my experience.
Great meme template.
Ass Dan’s gonna live forever!
We should strap some magnets on Tesla and coil some copper around his grave so he can generate electricity while he spins down there.
That wouldn’t work for long. The more we came to rely on clean free Tesla power, the less he would spin.
Free, unlimited energy, forever; but it must be used for evil to be sustainable.
Scientists predict we will reach peak Tesla by 2026
We will use the unlimited energy to power a Death Ray.
Guglielmo Marconi
Can be added to the list of profiting off Tesla’s work
Magic everywhere in this bitch!
Rest in Peace Ass Dan
May he ride bountiful into the dark carnival, Faygo-crusted Gates
I truly believed he would live forever
He does in our magical memories. It’s a motherfücking miracle, man. How does that even work? Magic that’s how