Pick Your Side

Pick Your Side

By: Kevin Robinson

Nikola is a better inventor and without his help, Edison could not have been where he is now. Tesla worked for Edison at one point and didn’t stay long. Thomas Edison was known for stealing ideas from his subordinates and marketing them as if he made it. In no way was Edison a better inventor than Tesla was. Edison was a better businessman and a master of manipulation.

Edison was very competitive. He hated to lose and had no problem throwing people under the bus. The thief saw Nikola Tesla as competition for America’s most talented inventor. At one point Tesla was very vocal about Edison when the two of them were being honored for a Noble Prize. He still held some resentment towards Edison for stealing his ideas.

Tesla eventually opened up his own lab. He experimented with lightning and managed to light almost 200 light bulbs at once. The majority of his life Tesla was laughed at. Most of his ideas were very outlandish and he lacked the adequate funding to produce them. A good amount of his ideas were kept in his journal. It wasn’t until future generations that we realize how important his ideas were to history.

I would have to say that I side with Nikola Tesla. It was very shady of Thomas Edison to take credit for an idea that someone he worked for created. If he spent less time trying to scheme from his coworkers, he may have had the chance to create something just as important. Thomas Edison is a greedy businessman. He saw an opportunity to capitalize on something and sold it off as his own. Tesla may not have been as business savvy as Edison was, but that does not give Edison the right to steal work from other people. Thomas Edison was a snake.

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