I bet that rich dumb ass would love this comparison.

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    8 months ago

    Where did you find that. I’ve got multiple sources who say the same, you’ve got “nuh uh” for a subject better you not I were alive to know first hand.

    How is sourced PBS publication “a fucking pile of garbage” you never even offered actual criticism.

    Ed: another, this one from 1919.

    https://books.google.com/books?id=xrhhE4q5gmgC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA65&dq="The+Manager+had+promised+me+fifty+thousand+dollars+on+the+completion+of+this+task+but+it+turned+out+to+be+a+practical+joke."&hl=en&ovdme=1#v=onepage&q="The+Manager+had+promised+me+fifty+thousand+dollars+on+the+completion+of+this+task+but+it+turned+out+to+be+a+practical+joke."&f=false

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      Where did you find that

      I told you. In Tesla’s literal autobiography called “My Inventions”, full text of which you can find here.

      I’ve got multiple sources who say the same

      None of them are Tesla though. It’s all just a giant echo chamber all quoting each other, sometimes changing it slightly, but noone ever can be bothered to actually check the primary sources.

      you’ve got “nuh uh” for a subject better you not I were alive to know first hand

      Wha?

      How is sourced PBS publication “a fucking pile of garbage”

      It doesn’t seem to contain any sources whatsoever. They also say that “Tesla claimed” those things, yet they never say where or when he supposedly claimed that.

      The link you sent doesn’t seem to contain anything, but it looks like it’s supposed to link to the magazine “Electrical Experimenter”, so I went ahead and checked its every 1919 issue. Couldn’t find what you’re claiming. In fact I couldn’t find anything negative about Edison at all. Curious.

      The earliest source I could find of that claim is a book called “Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla”, released in 1944, so a year after Tesla’s death, and it also doesn’t say where that quote is actually taken from. Interestingly, the author of this book claims that upon hearing the request for payment Edison said: “Tesla, you don’t understand our American humor”. So quite different to what the PBS article claims. In fact, it seems like the newer the source, the more villainous and bigoted that alleged quote becomes.

      You’re welcome to prove me wrong though. If you show an actual, trustworthy, primary source, I will change my mind.

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        8 months ago

        Biography not autobiography, big difference.

        Yours isn’t either.

        You didn’t provide a source, it’s not hard to figure out.

        They’re at the bottom boss.

        It does check again, I linked it directly it just didn’t preserve the highlight.