/sci/ - Science and Mathematics

Tesla actually understood science mathematically and knew what he was doing.

He did work for Edison and Edison totally fucked him by not paying him.

Edison pushed for countrywide DC power despite the fact it's completely inferior to high voltage AC because he's a retarded douche. (You can't transmit DC power over long distance because you get huge current drops)

Edison headed a campaign to discredit AC power by staging public executions of animals using AC current.

It's edgy to like Tesla because lol Tesla coils and time machines and wireless power and muh capitalism. Edison was a money grubbing dickhole.

one of my teachers told me that he fucked his pigeons
hope that helps

Easiest way to explain the Tesla vs Edison debate…

Walk in a dark room in your house and turn on the lights… That is thanks to Tesla.

The most well known technology Tesla invented is alternating current. AC power allowed for the creation of the modern power distribution network due to the fact that the voltages could be raised using transformers, allowing efficient transmission over long distances. At the receiving side, another transformer was used to step the voltage back down to a level that typical users would need (220VAC, 408VAC three phase, etc).

Oh yeah, speaking of three phase… Tesla also worked on polyphase power, which again, is a wonderful way of transmitting power over distances in a more efficient manner.

Edison, on the other hand, was pushing DC current. DC is incredibly useful, too, and is present in nearly every device we use, in some form or another. However, DC is NOT good at being efficiently transmitted over long distances. Its much easier to push the current long distances using AC, and then rectify it on-site, or in most cases, in-device, to the required DC voltage.

That of course just scratches the surface of Tesla's contributions to the modern world, but it is one of the big things he is known for.

>>1693
>However, DC is NOT good at being efficiently transmitted over long distances.

You're apparently wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

>>1694
The issue is changing the voltage of DC, with AC you can step it up and down with a couple of coils. With DC you need to trun it into AC, step it up / down then rectify it back to DC.
With modern electronics there may be a small light and cheap way to changing DC voltage, that wasn't the case 115 years ago

>>1693
>Walk in a dark room in your house and turn on the lights… That is thanks to Tesla.
And that guy who invented practical light bulbs. What was his name again…

Also pick up the phone or watch a movie. Those are both due to Edison. He was wrong about AC and an asshole but Edison was still a great inventor in his own right.

>>1652
hipsters think they are so cool they can take uncool things and make them look good.

That's why "geeky" stuff has become so popular today, because hipsters want to be different from everyone else and they think they can make being a geek look cool.

It's all about appearances with them, and they feel like they have to 'prove' their legitimacy in whatever their latest interest of the week is.
Often they'll even try to outdo people who are genuinely interested in the topic by finding obscure things. So they find shit like >>1660 which leaves them with the impression Tesla is some mysterious misunderstood genius that only the most enlightened take notice of, making Tesla the perfect weapon for a hipster.
and then go around acting as if they were some scholar who always knew and loved Tesla, rather than some asshat who just learned about him an hour ago and decided to tweet about it.

It's a fad, and it'll pass eventually.

Bazinga!XD
Real geeks like Tesla lol im such a nerd xd

>>1718
I fucking love this post.

He was actually a pretty cool dude.
But I feel bad for him because motherfuckers were stealing his shit left and right.
And he did impressive things like
>Alternating Current
>Predicted the fucking internet 100 years before it was invented
>Wireless electricity
>remote control
Do I think he was god, no
DO I think he is unappreciated (not with autists but with regular people) Yes, given how people usually don't even know who he is.

Edison was a businessman - not a scientist or inventor. He owned an 'inventor company' where he hired inventors to make stuff.

I have also heard things about Edison's character, but really - he's wasn't a scientist or an inventor. That should be enough.

Really, I don't think that Tesla and Edison should be compared, but I guess they're generally known as "that guy that did something with electricity" and Edison is probably more famous and recognized, so I guess some people are trying to fix that.

>>1903
Edison was both a businessman and an inventor. Do some research Teslafag.

>>1693
>The most well known technology Tesla invented is alternating current.
Nope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_current#History
>

The first alternator to produce alternating current was a dynamo electric generator based on Michael Faraday's principles constructed by the French instrument maker Hippolyte Pixii in 1832.

>>1693
>That of course just scratches the surface of Tesla's contributions to the modern world, but it is one of the big things he is known for.

Tesla invented the AC induction motor at the same time that Galileo Ferraris also invented it).
He also did some early work on radio, with his inventions mysteriously paralleling Marconi's work.

He tinkered with lots of other stuff, but ultimately produced nothing of value beyond the induction motor, early radio and polyphase AC.

>>1699
Haha! Fucking yanks. The true inventor of the first grand lightbulb was Sir Joseph Wilson Swan