The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 37 - AC/DC - Tesla VS Edison

Episode Date: November 29, 2014

Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla.Tour Dates Dollop MerchSourcesPatreon

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Putting the scat system on trial with this one scat scat scat scat scat scat So February 11th 1847 every time it starts with 18 I get nervous That's not a good. It's not a good century Thomas Edison. Uh-huh was born in Milan, Ohio Small village outside of Cleveland the youngest of seven children. Okay three of Which died before he was five years old. Jesus. That happened back then. There's a lot of fallen. That's why you had to have seven

Yeah, you wanted like a nuclear family. You'd have to throw eight at the wall and hope to You get like a 50% yeah, cool. Good time. His father made shingles and his mother was a school teacher Friends when you said shingles, I thought you meant like the skin probably wouldn't that be something that's what he made I'm the creator of this issue What I found in shingles I Create afflictions I'm sorry. What does mother do she was a school teacher? Okay Edison had an abnormally large head and it is said oh no that doctors feared he might have brain trouble because of his giant dome

He was not allowed to go to school for a few years What just cuz you had a big head and when he finally did attend for a short time. It did not go well So, I mean, it was it just because kids I just think they were like I don't know that that doesn't look right. No, he shouldn't be in school. That thing could pop I don't know. I mean, I'm not not that it would mean that he's smarter But that never crossed anyone's fucking mind that he could maybe with a bigger head have more fucking brain I don't know. I don't know what the reasoning is, but it's clearly bad No, keep that one out of school. What do you mean? He's in class my god get him out of you see the size of his head

When Edison was six he saw a goose sitting on her eggs and then watch them hatch Okay, one day soon after Thomas went missing After an anxious search his father found him sitting in a nest he had made in the barn filled with goose eggs and hen's eggs He collected trying to hatch them Okay, so now I know what the big head don't let him in school. Ah A couple years later What is your face as a parent like when you're like my boys trying to hatch hen eggs on his ass like oh fuck

Jesus Christ this one's broken. I don't think your ass is warm enough Thomas. They're going to my bottom a Couple years later. He went with the son of the wealthiest man in town to swim in the local creek soon after they got into the water The other boy disappeared Young Edison waited around for half an hour or so and then because it was growing dark went home confused and lonely Even if there's not anymore, that's a great little tail He didn't tell anyone what happened That's a couple of hours later the missing boy was being searched for and an anxious man came to Edison To ask questions

Yes, it's us and Thomas explained what happened and Thought he was somehow implicated in the disappearance the creek was dragged and the body was recovered. Oh my god So he had a little bit of trauma Jesus what kind of idiot is like? Yeah. Oh, where'd you go? Oh, okay. Bye forever. Where'd you go? It's getting dark. Come up. It's getting dark Hari I got to go home and try to hatch eggs and eggs under my ass Another time he built the fire in a barn But shockingly the flames spread so rapidly that the barn was completely destroyed. Okay, so now I think we're

schools not for him Big head is a problem It is a red flag But who like if there's one thing that burns it's a it's a bar fire and a barn It's like yeah fucking you're dumb I'm gonna like this pile of gunpowder on fire and see what happens Warning and blowing up my next trick will be shooting a gun at this man. Oh, no, he's hurt Edison escaped the fire

But he was publicly whipped in the village square as a warning to other youths. Don't set barns on fire Don't be dumb with big heads. He was a curious young boy and was full of ideas One time he talked a boy employed by his family into swallowing a large quantity of Sidlitz powders I'm gonna guess that's not a good thing to swallow early Alka Salter. Oh, okay. Oh my He knew the powder would create gases in the stomach and he thought they would blow the boy up into a human balloon Okay, all right, so

So he thinks life's animated then he thought the boy would float away. Okay Dave or be able to fly Now it did not work. Oh, what do you mean this boy didn't turn into a balloon and float The boy became very sick Most balloons do before they get big and probably a lot of pain and farting and Edison was soundly punished by his mother She didn't recognize that he was trying to make a balloon man Come on, that was probably his worst invention In 1854 the Edison's moved to Port Huron, Michigan where he went to public school for a total of three months His teachers referred to him as Adel. Okay. Adel this defined as unable to think clearly confused or rotten

Have you seen the head on it? He's got a big rotting head on that neck. It's like a bruised fruit Then he was homeschooled by his mother always a good sign. Yeah, all homeschool kids are well adjusted. Yeah Yeah, no, they don't sit on eggs and the seller of the Edison homestead young Edison soon Accumulated chemical equipment and created the first in a long series of home laboratories. Okay, so let me let me just ask you this Mm-hmm. So he's got a lot of bad things. He's doing he's lighting barns on fire. He's he's taste of fresh friend Died and he didn't want to tell anybody. He didn't know you and they're letting him have a basement with chemicals in it Yeah, okay He began experimenting in his lab when he was about 10 years of age starting with Parker's school philosophy an elementary book on physics

He tried about every experiment in it From such work came an early familiarity with the nature of electrical batteries and the production of current in them Okay, 12 years old in 1859 He got a job selling newspapers on the trains of the Grand Trunk Railroad between Port Huron and Detroit Okay, on the train Edison soon found opportunity for his favorite hobby hurting people By proxy people into balloons ballooning humans the badger car is the baggage car was divided into three compartments one for Trunks and packages one for mail and one for smoking in those days

No use was made of the smoking apartment because there was no ventilation. Oh good The smoking apartment was then turned over to young Edison Just turned over. Yeah, have a good time kid. All right. Well, this this area is for an 11 year old to do whatever There we go, that's fine, right We're the worst train company ever hey Hey, Lou this kid wants to just have this smoking area for himself. So I'm good So we're just gonna let him do that. Yeah, we're really dumb. Yeah, okay. We're amazingly stupid. All right, cool Uh

He had plenty of spare time on the two daily runs and found the time to transfer his laboratory from the cellar and recreate it On the train. All right. All right. I think here's a good time for me to stop. Yeah. No, no, no you hold on Now they this boy Who's very troubled in a weird way or just dumb definite weirdo a real weirdo Now gets to put whatever chemical lab. He wants this 11 year old 12 well at this point He's clearly a bond villain, right? Yeah, obviously. This is the origin story. He's got a lab on a train He has a fucking train lab he's a 12 That happened yeah, okay cool just

I want to be clear Thomas soon had his lab equipped with a huge variety of equipment just a terrible idea One day not a good start already this day is not good the train violently lurched as a train would be expected to fucking do Because it's a train. Yeah, this is why part of the deal This is why all of the like the jet propulsion laboratory is not on a train Or he's on trains. He's a boy who is Nobody in charge a

Stick of phosphorus felt in the floor burst into flames The car caught on fire really the conductor rushed in with water and put out the fire But he was displeased Why? On the arrival at its next stop Edison and his entire laboratory were tossed off the train by the angry conductor But before throwing him off the conductor beat him on his ears From this incident Edison became partially deaf. Oh, Jesus. He was very hard of hearing Jesus Christ deserved. I don't know if he deserved a deafening. Well, I mean something

He's slow the kid down break the fucking ears of the person who was like, yeah, go for that. Go ahead Go back there and and have phosphorus whatever the fuck you want back there. Maybe they thought he was gonna paint Can you imagine a conductor when he was like, sorry, what the fuck is this? Is that a boy with a lap? What the fuck off of the train? While working for the railroad Edison's Edison became very interested in electricity from visiting telegraph offices He built the telegraph line Between his home and a friend's home with common stovepipe wire. Okay, Edison knew a bit about static electricity So he decided to experiment

He tied to Tied two cats tails to the wire. What then attempted to rub them together now cats Are not now, you know cats. Yeah cats are not big on that No, they don't like to be tied to things and they don't like to be rubbed together Their tails are extremely sensitive parts of them. They don't like tail business He abandoned the experiment after being badly clawed Is it to call that an experiment I mean

In my next experiment, I will rub cats together in my next experiment. I'm gonna kick this dog He doesn't like it noted The telegraph line was eventually pulled out by a stray cow wandering through the orchard. Yeah, we'll just leave that line alone Does this Edison was not the only boy who enjoyed electricity and cats. There was another Oh, God, Nikola Tesla was born on July 10th. Oh boy 1856 in modern-day Croatia To an Orthodox priest father on their family farm. Oh boy His mother was an invent inventive homemaker who created appliances such as a mechanical egg beater Wow So this family, okay, I'm super into you. We like this family. Yeah, okay fucking mechanical egg beater

I'm just in 1856. Yeah. No, that's out of here. Okay. I'll see you later She was from a family of inventors both her father and grandfather created numerous invent inventions for household agricultural and other uses The family owned a horse that one day had saved the life of Tesla's father the horse did the horse did okay, okay? Saving the life is okay. It's a loose Interpretation now while on a ride the horse threw the father off when it became frightened Then the horse ran home and led the family back to where the father was Okay, so they they said that was saving his life even though he had caused the right initial Still pretty cool the horse pretty cool because the horse was like oh god

I almost killed that I should go get some people it must be so I mean I Obviously when a horse comes back without the man, you are like that's not good We what's the horse never good on a horse comes back without a man. No my crazy wasn't there a man I was a dad on that horse. Hey, wasn't there a Larry on this? Because not just a horse So They love the horse a magic horse magic horse, right every day. He's like a horse. There's my horse. Okay, my horse Yeah, okay, then the horse kicked and killed Nicholas brother. I'm sorry

Then the horse kicked and killed Nicholas brother the magic horse that we love the life-saving horse This is also the same horse that flipped the dad off and then saved his life But walking back to where he was. I mean he couldn't save the boy because he'd already killed us So now we've got a I guess now we broke even a Wash right even horse, right now. He's just a regular horse The boy Nicholas brother was incredibly smart okay much more so than Nicola Nicola's parents were Inconsolable and whenever Nicola did something commendable his parents would get sad about his dead brother. Oh

My god, well, we'll talk a real win-win situation. That is quiet upranking Do me a favor and don't do anything right ever again Nicola. It makes me sad. Why mother? Because it make me think of your brother. I built an engine. I miss your brother Look, I've got straight A's. He'll never come back You're not him The family cat introduced a young Tesla to it electricity on a dry winter day a cat did I'm telling you it So what the okay great the greats the hip with the Mount Rushmore cats

The cat Hall of Fame quote as they stroked his back I saw a miracle that made me speechless with amazement The cat's back was a sheet of light and my hand produced a shower of sparks loud enough to be heard all over the house Static static right most kids would be like cool But Nick Nicola was like I'm going to harness this for the service of man, and I would be like oh That cat crux and hurts my hand that don't pat him. He's an electric cat He then started experimenting with June books He would attach as many of four of them on a spindle and

Transmit their motion to a large disc attached and create power I don't know exactly what that's saying, but he's attaching the June Bucks to something and there's there's a disc a wheel Uh-huh, and they're make make and they're making it move right These bugs would continue whirling for hours and hours They were probably he probably just attached them to something and then they would try to fly away Probably, but they're also lighting up. I mean they are June bugs. So the oh, right? The was light up. Yeah

His experiment was going great until a strange boy came and ate the June Bugs alive What and enjoyed them as though they're fine oysters Look, this was just a strange time Wow If only that it's just and this be the greatest story of that was that it's done Oh, man, those are like oysters Ah, no, I actually was doing I gotta go eat rocks. I Call him lobster. I mean my fingers

French fries the disgusting side of the boy eating the June Bucks killed Tesla's endeavors And he was never able to touch a June bug or other insect again. Jesus. He took it really hard Oh, wouldn't you know I get That kid could come back well in my world. I want that kid back eating oyster June Bucks. Oh, these are good bugs These are good. I'd like them. I'm rich. Okay. Bye Tesla. It would be great if that boy went on to be something He just like was that boy was hit Now Meanwhile at 16 years old Thomas Edison began working with the US

Military tele telegraph corpse. Okay. He was there day and night sleeping at the office His boss said he was engrossed intensely in his experiments and scientific reading but totally indifferent to his duties as operator He pretty much just stayed in this cellar Experimenting so fire him. Yeah, like what what is happening in the world one one people one fucking employers like yeah Go do experiments in the lab. This guy's like, yeah, go ahead the basement around whatever. Yeah, what happened to work in the job? You'd have been great as a comic back then Next Edison spent five years traveling around the middle of the country as a wandering telegraph operator for hire Most of the time must be a really lonely job. It's God. Anyone need wire

Wire anyone Most of the time he was monkeying with the batteries and circuits and devising things to make The telegraph work better. He also relieved He also relieved the monotony of office work By fitting up the battery circuits to deal with the vermin that invested the premises. Oh He created in the cellar what he called his rat paralyzer. Oh, it's a a catchy a very simple device consisting of two plates insulated from each other and connected with the main battery and

They were placed so that what a rat passed over them the front feet on one plate and the hind feet on the other The circuit was completed and the rat departed his life electrocuted But he had to step on both plates. Yeah, the rat had to run and step on both plates at the same time If you really are a dumb rat, if you're all right position properly for walking. Oh Now take another who started killing animals first Edison, uh-huh. Yes, take no Yeah, okay Edison moved to Boston in 1868 and began to change his profession from telegrapher to inventor He received his first patent on an electronic electric vote recorder a device intended for Used by elect elected bodies such as Congress to speed up the voting process

Uh-huh But when he showed it to the lawmakers in the Capitol, they said we don't want to speed things up We like everything slow. He was like But no, it's better. No, we don't want better by the way weird head Also, your head's very large. Also, your head is very straight. Can you hear me? No, I won't eat all because out there What are you talking about? So as it mentioned was a commercial failure Edison then resolved that in the future He would only invent things that he was certain the public would want. Okay Of a telegraph office. He worked at in Boston. He said the office was literally loaded with cockroaches of which came after the lunch

These were such a bother on my table that I pasted two strips of tinfoil on The wall at my desk connecting one piece to the positive pole of a big battery supplying current to the wires and The negative pole to the other strip the cockroaches moving up the wall would pass over the strips The moment they got their legs across both strips. There was a flash of light and the cockroaches were turned into gas So he was basically exploding cockroaches. It also sounds a lot like he reinvented the rat parallel He did but he put it on a wall now for roaches, but also just the sound and the smell They turned it into gas. That's a that's pretty scary That's that they didn't die. They turned into get would they became vapor?

They would become steam and go to the sky and then you breathe them in much better The Junebug kid was like, oh man. I love that smell I'm hungry this always degraded the Junebag guy was just following everyone around Get him in more of these dollops this automatic electrocuting device attracted so much attention and Got half a column in an evening paper that the manager made me stop it Wow. All right Hey Thomas quit turning cockroaches into gas enough It's really anything good. It was punished and anything bad. They looked the other way because you'd think that'd be good

Yeah, but it's also fucking gross. Yeah, but it's I mean like if there's cockroaches everywhere, right? Meanwhile Tesla was getting a formal education He went to a preparatory school where he got in some to Some strange boy stuff. I'm sorry I'm gonna read it and read a passage. Oh quote. Okay, little nervous I attained the unique distinction of champion crow catcher I would go into the forest and hide in the bushes and imitate the call of the bird in a short while Crow would flutter down into the shrubbery near me

After that all I needed to do was throw a piece of cardboard to distract its attention jump up and grab it before it could Free itself from the bushes in this way. I would capture as many as I desired But on one occasion when we left the forest thousands of crows had gathered making a frightful racket in a few minutes They rose in pursuit and soon enveloped us the fund Fun lasted until all of a sudden I received a blow on the back of the head which knocked me down Then they attacked me viciously. I was compelled to release the two birds I caught and was glad to join my friend who had taken refuge in a cave. So he's he's in Game of Thrones. He was In a crow tornado young Tesla a tornado. Yeah, he lived in a Game of Thrones world. What?

I don't know. I like how it was like. I mean, they're they're pecking at me so hard. I might have to release their friends The thing I didn't want to do But also crows are like give us our buddy Yeah, the crows to Tesla's a weirdo. Yes. Yes Tesla was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls and he told his uncle that he would go to America and put a big wheel That would be run by the falls a Boy can dream. Yeah, sure When he was tan he entered secondary preparatory school there

He became fascinated with the demonstrations and experiments performed by the instructors. He was obsessed with math He enjoyed doing it in his mind as well as on paper or on the board No That's no teaches out. He lived with his aunt and uncle at school It was a nice home, but occasionally the river would rise and rats would be driven into the buildings Tesla within the rat herd and received the title of rat catcher. Okay, so it's cool that so far Edison and Tesla have in common cats and Rats yeah, yep, big big players if only Edison had a growth thing going on

Tesla wanted to be an engineer, but his father wanted him to be a priest at age 17 Tesla contracted cholera and made an agreement with his father if he survived He would be allowed to attend the renowned Austrian polytechnic school at Graz to study engineering Which he did Okay, great bet though. Yeah, I'm sure it's real comfortable for the dad. Hey if I live can I go to engineering school? Yeah, whatever just live judge, please live All right, I plan on living at the school. He would work from three in the morning until 11 at night Seven days a week. No holidays. He got the highest grades when he went home

His father was not impressed after his father died He discovered his professors had written to his father saying Nicola was going to work himself to death So he had some work issues. Yeah, he liked work when Tesla was 17 His thoughts turned seriously to invention. He discovered that he could easily visualize something and build it Later, he said his devices always worked without its x without exception One day he was walking in the park with a friend when he had an idea like a flash of lightning He grabbed a stick and drew diagrams in the sound in the sand Okay, what he had drawn ended up being the alternating current motor Jesus Christ

His friends over there like I made a bear come eat some of these oysters Wow, that's crazy June bug and the inventor and you I mean if you were with him, you're like, dude, just do it when you're home What a play ball come on Tesla then got a job at the telephone exchange in Hungary He made so many improvements that his manager sent him to a position in Paris in Paris He worked with Charles bachelor who was a close friend of Thomas Edison. Okay, and others He told them about the alternating current motor one American offered to form a stock company Tesla had no idea what that was

He spent the next few months working on power plants where he used That were used for lighting around Germany and France and they were all based on Edison's patents, okay Because Edison had continued inventing in Boston. He invented a new improved stock ticker and moved to New York He was paid 40,000 for it. He used that money to set up a laboratory in Newark, New Jersey in 1871 At 24 Edison fell in love with six with a 16 year old who worked at his company easy to do easy. Yeah Sure You're fresh

He married her but was disappointed with her quote my wife dearly beloved cannot invent worth a dam Oh, Jesus. He's got the high standards that he needs an inventor. How are you not inventing? I Made a pie. Yeah, that's someone else told you how to make shit, yeah from the spring of 1876 to 1886 Edison lived and did his work at Menlo Park a parcel of land He purchased 25 miles south of Newark that became Edison's home with a laboratory building a glass house a carpenter shop a carbon shed and a blacksmith shop

His big invention was the phonograph 1877 it made him an international celebrity. He was known as the Wizard of Menlo Park In 1884 his wife died apparently of a drug overdose Edison tried to revive her with an electric shock So he tried to do Frankenstein. Yeah, he probably the rat. He was like get her on both these plates Bring her back. She could just lay on both these plates at the same time. Are you gonna bury it? No, I'm gonna fill her with Hocus-Altar. No, I'm gonna turn her into gas That's how she'd want to go. It's just out like a gas

Hey, bye, hon. All right He moved to New York City with his three children a year later married 21 year old Mine and Miller. He was 38 at the time. All right. Yeah. All right. All right, Tommy using the fame I got with a big head who can't hear he's pulling. What's up? I'm famous In the 1890s, he would write to her you and the children in the laboratory the most important things in my life You and the children and the laboratory What a great love letter. Yeah, I love you the children in that place. I like to hang out in a lot. I Love you like I love that lap. Got damn it woman. You're like a beaker

You're a beaker that I could fuck. I love you, baby You remind me a copper wire and oh, yeah, I'm getting all turned on over here. You can hold the charge, baby Edison son Thomas Alva, Jr. Edison expected his son to follow in his footsteps The Edison, Jr. Steel an iron process company was formed with Thomas, Jr. as a principal stockholder when he was just 20 years old Okay, I really thought you were gonna go low age on that one No, I like three yeah Thomas senior was outraged at how his name was being used and ordered his son to stop He thought his son was scientifically illiterate and being taken advantage of

The Edison chemical company which had already been sued by Thomas senior for the use of the Edison name then recruited Thomas, Jr. To give them legitimacy after renaming itself the Thomas Edison, Jr. chemical company Thomas, Jr. Became vice president and began adding his own inventions to the company's already dubious offerings. Good Lord his magno electric vitalizer Advertise as curing paralysis Rheumatism and other incurable complaints Oh, and what was it just like a rock? Yeah, so it's just a dish bag. Yeah amazing this occur

Pear you won't get paralyzed. So you want to get rid of the raises. Oh, yeah, put this stick in your hand Here you go. I'm I'm just like my dad our die This hat cures dandruff. Here you go wear it. Why have you heard of my daddy drink this alka-salt sir? You can fly the company also sold wizards ink tablets Oh, God dissolving water to make ink and Advertise advertising played up the Edison name by describing their product line as coming from the young brain of Thomas Edison, Jr. Oh my god with the new products being billed as the latest Edison discovery

I don't know why I just keep picturing Julian lemon I Don't like Charlie Sheen. Yeah, okay. Sure Thomas senior was furious and wrote to his errant son to halt any Association with the company in 1902 Thomas, Jr. Agree to give up all future rights to the name Edison For the purposes of obtaining money. That's a quote and return for a monthly allowance He's all commercial rights to the name So he was just gonna keep being a douchebag and then his dad decided his dad paid him to just like not be his to be his son

Let's not fuck up the name. Yeah He had other kids, but he didn't get along with his other. How are you making money now Tom Edison, Jr. Well, actually don't call me that and that's how I Kind of black blackmailed my dad My dad pays me to not be associated with him. How are you? Yeah, my dad my dad pays me not to be a dick It's pretty cool Tesla on the other hand would never marry. He thought women just wanted to make themselves like men now In dress sports and achievements of every kind

The nerve quote the world has experienced many tragedies But to my mind the greatest tragedy of all is the present economic condition wherein women strive against men and in many cases Actually succeed in usurping their places in the professions in the industry This growing tendency of women to overshadow the masculine is a sign of deteriorating civilization Practically all the achievements of man until now have been inspired by his love and devotion to woman Woman's independence and her cleverness in obtaining what she wants in the business world is breaking down man's spirit of Independence the old Jesus the old fire He wants experience of being able to achieve something that would compel and hold the woman's devotion is turning to ashes Jesus Christ

Lighten the fuck up. I mean really women are breaking everything He's really not giving him a shot. No, yeah, because men were apparently only inventing shit to get laid Yeah, and now women are like I want to do stuff. He's like, oh, they're all gonna lay each other now Edison's friends in Paris convinced Tesla to go meet Edison in America. All right The meeting with edit. Oh, this is a quote the meeting with Edison was a memorable event memorable event in my life I was amazed at this wonderful man Who without early advantage advantages and scientific training had accomplished so much within a few weeks I had won Edison's confidence

okay The SS Oregon a steamer was having problems and Edison was upset about it Because it had all this is a electrical shit on it Okay, so Tesla went to the ship worked all night and fixed all of the short circuits At five in the morning. He was headed home and he bumped into Edison and bachelor When Tesla told him he had been working all night fixing the ship Edison just stared at him and then walked off But when he had gone some distance, oh boy, there's more he remarked bachelor, this is a damn good man Oh, what because he had no social skills you say you say to the guy's face

Yeah, you say fuck that was a great job Tesla. You don't walk off 90 feet and go. How about that guy? Like what is he my father? Yeah That's amazing From this point on Tesla had the freedom to work when he wanted, okay, so nice Edison loves him. Yeah During this period is a quote. I designed 24 different types of standard machines which replaced the old ones The manager had promised me $50,000 on the completion of this task, but it turned out to be a practical joke This gave me a painful shock and I resigned my position

Jesus so he quit Edison's company because some guy was like, yeah, we're gonna make make 24 of those and he's like, okay He made him he's like, yeah, it's funny with it. I don't know I'm not gonna give me any money. I quit Edison said Tesla you don't understand our American humor when you become a full-fledged American You will appreciate an American joke. You'll appreciate that you had to make 24 of something for a life praying. Yeah, it's a really long Long game long game. You're a sport sour sport. Yeah But Tesla is done in 1882 Edison launched Pearl Street Station in New York City the first modern

Electrical lighting utility within a year of its opening Pearl Street served more than 500 customers including the New York Times Wow Offering both reliable power generation and efficient and safe distribution Pearl Street served as a catalyst for a cost-competitive incandescent lighting the New York Times forever would back Edison And it was it only went out like three hours in the entire time. He put it up. Really never fail. That's crazy Public utilities were being created, but no one really had an idea of what was right or wrong in their development From 1880 to 1884 JP Morgan poured money into the Edison company with success and profitability Now JP Morgan is a crazy crazy rich guy. Yes

There was a great deal of competition for the production of incandescent lamps. None of Edison's competitors had the same financial backing Starting in the late 1880s Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla Tesla were engaged in a battle now known as the war of the currents Okay. All right. Edison developed a direct current Currently that runs continually on a single direction like in a battery or a fuel cell during the early years of electricity Direct current also known as DC. Mm-hmm was the standard in the US But direct current is not easily converted to a higher to higher or lower voltages Tesla believed that the alternating current AC

Was the solution to this problem? Alternating current versus direction a certain number of times per second 60 in the US and can be converted to different voltages Relatively easily using a transformer. Hmm. So there you go. All right So they said the stage. Yeah, one is simple. One. Yeah one DC and DC's like So this sounds a little bit like Edison as a you Edison not wanting to lose the royalty as he was earning from his direct current patents began a campaign to discredit Smear campaign. Yeah Tesla had spent a year in the testing rooms of Westinghouse Electric working on the AC motor

He was paid an enormous salary and George Westinghouse in return got the patent for the AC induction motor and various other devices The fact was the Westinghouse alternating current system was cheaper and delivered to lower cost electricity Westinghouse continued to win municipal contracts based on his cost advantage However, Edison had the support of JP Morgan's money When Westinghouse tried to move into New York City, the politicians closed ranks on him He was forced to use overhead wiring while Edison laid underground wires The overhead caused serious safety problems and resulting accidents got charged against Westinghouse in the press Edison because it was lacks a lack of education did not understand the complexity of AC power DC was simple and he understood it

Also, AC current didn't lend itself to the trial and error approach of Edison Yeah, he's just being a fucking dick. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, Edison cannot refute AC current on a technical basis, but he currently saw the safety problem with AC One of the earliest deaths was a horse that had stepped on an AC line in Buffalo Killing the horse and the rider Jesus There was also a house fire in Pittsburgh a boy was killed by touching a line and a Westinghouse repairman was also killed Morgan controlled most of the city presses and these stories started to make headlines God the New York Times and other New York papers were relentless and they're reporting of every AC current accident

It's just Fox fucking news Motherfuckers in 1888 Edison would find an ally in his fight against AC current Harold P. Brown was an electrical engineer at Columbia University Brown was a crusader against AC current What a life that is A crusade because of the death of several of his colleagues. Oh, okay. Yeah, but that doesn't mean that That means they fucked up using a secret. It doesn't mean that it fucking come into their house. Yeah, that's the boogeyman No, it's not like it. Oh god. Here comes a secret run. I'm gonna devote my life to making a secret look bad

Brown had compiled the list of over 60 deaths in a two-year period. He started to promote the killing power of a city At the same time the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals asked Edison if electricity offered a humane way of killing animals Brown was given free reign in Edison's lab to perform these experiments Oh Edison called their reporters to witness the trial the trials They're cut. That's what trials are. They're not for there for you. They're not for like up Well, boy really screwed the pooch on that one. Let's try again He paid 25 cents a piece to local children to bring in cats and dogs. Oh god Jesus Christ

They promoted the term Westinghouse for electrical electrical execution. That's a nice. That's a nice spin Let's wait there are high-fives euthanasia. I mean when they go with that. Yeah, that works great I've been Westinghouse better than we shocked them to death The Edison Brown Demonstrations became even more dramatic. Oh god a horse and cow are electrocuted for the press. Oh, could you? Come on in boys. We want to show you something see that cow there I guess that's noose pretty great, huh? Just like we did with all those dogs. All right, bring the horse in

Yeah, all right like the cow that make me look good in the articles Brown even went to the Times to challenge Westinghouse to an electric duel running the two currents through their bodies So basically what AC Kurt works better way it's better It's way more electricity so it can kill you. Yeah, so they're like ours is better because it's shit You can't a you won't die from this so then he goes in and goes I challenge Westinghouse We'll both hold our currents and see what happens. They want to have a fucking you just kill the cow you fucking asshole He's like that's not the right attitude for a kill-off Now get your shock stick and let's do it

Brown then push the idea that AC can be used to execute criminals Hey Let's kill people. Do you know this has been working on dogs and cats and cows and horses? Is it just beer? There's a prisoner way as much as a cow. I think he weighs less. That's perfect. Oh my god You know we should do kill him. We should kill the people with AC. I'm glad we did this Yeah, let's start killing these people Edison also thought it was a dandy idea When New York State said Whoa, whoa, whoa when the state sentence convicted killer William Kemler to death

He was slated to become the first man to be executed in an electric chair Killing criminals with electricity quote is a good idea Edison said at the time Okay, I'm on record and it's good. It will be quick and the so the criminal won't suffer that much How well wouldn't just shooting someone in the brain? Oh, what far quicker. What are you talking about far more humane? I don't know if that's true. That's true. Oh, well, let's read on Okay, New York State expressed the desire to purchase three Westinghouse Alternating current dynamos for executions. She's but Westinghouse refused to sell them So the guy created the currents like yeah, I'm not that's fucking crazy. Yeah

Yeah Good so Brown built an electric chair using his a using a C in his design Somehow Brown got his hands on some AC generators August 6th 1890 Kemler was strapped there the guys who like DC are now building AC killing shit with AC just because fucking insane of the morality of Westinghouse and they won't do it Kemler was strapped in a Harold Brown's chair at Auburn prison and wired to an AC generator Oh, the butterflies when the current hit him Kemler's fist clenched so tight that blood began to trickle from his palms down

the chair His face contorted and after 17 seconds the power was shut down. Oh author Southwick the quote father of the electric chair a dentist thought the idea I Thought up the idea of electrocution while he was on the New York State Committee He was in attendance and proclaimed to the witness. This is the culmination of ten years. We're gonna study We live in a higher civilization today

Like like what a guy while a guy smolders like bacon his hands bleed from shock. Yeah. Yeah, cool Oh, then Kemler began to shriek for air. Oh Oh, oh good good great god. He's alive someone shouted turn on the current turn on the current instantly another scream This man is not dead. What the fuck the generated needed time to build its current and Kemler wheezed and gasped as the electricity began to course through his body again Some witness fainted while others vomited. Oh, it appeared that Kemler was on the verge of regaining consciousness The back of his coat caught on fire. Oh my god The current started up again and Kemler finally went rigid the current stopped and he was pronounced dead But dr. Edward Spitzka look who predicted they will never be another electrocution until

next time We're gonna do a lot of these actually. Oh my god That's horrible. Yeah, oh that fucking the fucking electric chair for years like yeah sponges catching on fire and people's head Like they would wet people down and then they would put a sponge up there and then the spider get your fire Shoot them fucking. I don't know. I mean, I'm not even saying it's right to kill them But why not just do the thing that you because a guy has to shoot the bullet so they're thinking It's like I don't know pull the fucking lever shoot. You're right shoot shoot him 17 seconds and he wasn't cooked. No, they were they were they were

Had to go back in the oven. This didn't happen with the cow Oh, hey, you're the guy who thought up the eating the Alka Salter thing, right? That's right Yes, I tried to turn maybe that's how we get rid of criminals fill them with Alka Salter and turn them into balloons Skycrime and increase but other than that, how would you like to die son? I want to become a balloon I'd like to be ballooned, please the campaign was successful in putting fear in the general public for many years How I why would it do that? I can't believe what what about that? I can't believe that For many years people referred to the process of being electrocuted in the chair as being Westinghouse. Oh Poor Westinghouse. He's like, I didn't fucking do it. I didn't do anything. I didn't want to make that. No, well, it's yours

Hope you're happy Morgan his partners basically controlled Edison at this point and they needed him in the fight with Westinghouse not often venting gadgets Morgan realized he needed to take management control of Edison's electrical companies Huge amounts of money were being wasted in legal battles alone not to mention all the inventing he was doing Yeah, so in 1890 merging with another electrical company called Thomas Houston General Electric was formed. Okay. Mm-hmm And they've been good things to life. Yeah, except for when they're killing people now. Yeah, now they just make weapons Yeah, yeah full circle cool in

In 1893 the Niagara Falls power company decided to award Westinghouse the contract to generate power from Niagara Falls All right, Tesla's childhood dream. Yep. Yeah Although some doubted that the falls could power all of Buffalo New York 25 miles away Tesla was convinced it could power not only Buffalo, but also the entire eastern United States. Wow on November 16th 1896 Buffalo, New York was lit up by the alternating current from Niagara Falls By this point General Electric had also decided to jump on the AC train. Oh shocking But because it's worse. Oh because that works better because it's worse

Oh, you know what the reason it kills people is because it works better. All right. We'll admit that it's good for killing But that's it JP Morgan wasn't interested in winning the technical battle of recurrence He want to control the electrical market behind the scenes He drove a publicity campaign touting Westinghouse's mismanagement thus driving its stockdown Trying to starve out Westinghouse and buy the Tesla patents. Wow Westinghouse now found himself in a position where a trade with General Electric made sense. Oh, geez The arrangement was announced on March 13th 1896 the two companies agreed to share patents and

Royalty is using AC current Westinghouse called on the inventor pleading for Tesla To Tesla for an escape from the initial contract that gave Tesla royalties Tesla tore up the contract and the Westinghouse electric company was saved Tesla won the current wars Good, but he lost his royalties, but good good Other stuff The x-ray was discovered in 1895 and Edison quickly became began experimenting with it. Oh, Jesus

There's a guy with no time to acknowledge really just this is the this is the guy that made the fucking The the nuclear reactor and his bar, right? Yes, shit. This is that guy Edison made a type of x-ray machine, but soon noticed that the x-ray had poisoned his assistant. Oh Mr. Daly whose hair came out Thomas and whose flesh began to grow ulcers. Oh, Jesus Edison then concluded, uh, I would not do it would not do so I dropped it I don't care for the hair falling out and the ulcers and the whatnot and how's mr. Daly know he's dead

Well daily began suffering from debilitating fatigue body aches and multiple burn-like lesions on his hands These lesions turned out to be cancer that rapidly spread throughout his body Daily lost both his arms to these malignant lesions arms and finally died a painful death in 1904 Thomas Edison was said to be haunted for the rest of his life by Daly's cancer and death and adamantly refused out anything to do with x-rays So he killed the guy He lost his arms. Yeah, I don't want to see past that. I'll be like, but take me out Put me in the chair in

1898 Tesla demonstrated the first radio controlled boat at the Madison Square Garden electrical exhibition Fucking a remote control boat Yeah, 1998 these fucking stud guys killing. Yeah, this feels like a real Rube Cy Young battle The following year Tesla moved his work to Colorado Springs, Colorado in order to construct a high voltage High frequency tower for the US government The goal was to develop a wireless transmission of energy using the vibration vibrating waves of the earth to generate unlimited power and communications Through this work. He lit 200 lamps without wires. What from a distance of 25 miles

What yeah Jesus right. Yeah crazy and shot man-made lightning into the atmosphere using a Tesla coil a Transformer antenna. He had patented in 1891 So he was shooting light light into the sky made lightning and he was making lights turn on 25 miles away without wires tower. Yeah So look out crows. Yeah. Hey hero. Yeah Yeah That's crazy. Those were like you win Once you have lightning in your fucking wild card the crows like all right. All right in 1902 again with JP Morgan's backing

He was gonna develop a system for transmission of radio and television signals and The Wardiff Tower was built Warden Cliff Tower was built on Long Island in 1904 Tesla went to JP Morgan and told him he intended to use this tower for the production of free power for everyone. Okay Morgan responded you need to tell me mr. Tesla that Tesla that somebody can stick an antenna rod in the ground and another One in the air and pick up all the free power they want and I can't put a meter on it and charge them Cool guy Morgan and other investors cut off all funding. The tower is completely abandoned and foreclosed on in 1916 so he was gonna create something fucking. Yeah, I was gonna say cuz what the fuck free power. Yeah He we yeah, we could have it still

Letters the New York Times May 23rd 1909. Oh Dear editor This is from Nicolette. Okay, Tesla Of all the evidence of narrow-mindedness and folly I know of no greater than the stupid belief that this little planet is singled out to be the seat of life and That all other heavenly bodies are fiery masses of or lumps of ice Most certainly some planets are not inhabited but others are and among these there must be Life under all conditions and faces of development the force of gravitation on Mars is only two-thirds that of Earth

hence all mechanical problems must have been much easier of Solution of solution and there are many other reasons why intellectual life should have been on that planet to be sure We have no absolute proof that Mars is inhabited But there is one method of putting ourselves in touch with other planets though not easy of a Execution it is simple in principle. The apparatus is known as my wireless transmitter Signed Nicola Tesla now a crazy person He wants to contact other planets. Yeah, well, he thinks there's probably life on Mars So I would like to call the people at Mars

Take that narrow-mindedness From the December issue of popular electricity magazine 1912 great magazine great very popular so good So people love popular electricity. It's a great magazine and the articles are great and they have great interviews and it's really Yeah, it's great Nikola Nikola Tesla believes he has found an electrical way of lessening the burdens of school life and the difficulties of acquiring education a Few months ago. Mr. Tesla laid before the superintendent of schools of New York William Maxwell a plan for making dull people's bright by saturating them unconsciously with electricity You

Can do everything like just well Mr. Maxwell an eminently progressive and practical man after careful investigation of mr. Tesla's plan Arrived at the conclusion that the experiment could not possibly do the pupils any harm Wow, I really thought good was what was about Your fucking mouth Therefore he endorsed it for a six-month trial It has been announced that the experiment is first to be conducted on a class of mentally defective children Oh my god

The most difficult of all people's to handle and the bane and trial of every school teacher's life Christ he acknowledges that his plan of stimulating dull pupils by saturating them with electricity is based on the well-known theory of stimulating plant growth by electricity a theory which has been successfully carried out so What the fuck so so he was like well it works on plants, so let's take these mentally defective children and juice them What hey that kids an idiot? Let's put some fry them up a little bit. Have you tried cooking the boy? Well, you got to cook him a little he's not done. I Don't know what happened with that. I couldn't find anything else. Well, I'll tell you what I think it went poorly

I don't think we need to even know cooking third graders Edison died from complications of diabetes on October 18th 1931 President who Herbert Hoover asked for America to dim their lights in honor Something they couldn't do with DC He held 1993 patents covering the creation or refinements of devices in telegraphy and telephony electric power generation and lighting sound recording motion pictures storage batteries and Mining and cement technology

It's a lot Yeah For a guy with a weird head from Time magazine July 23rd 1934 Last week Dr. Tesla announced a combination of an invention which would make war unthinkable the death ray The beam according what's happening? I'm just a little worried The rest of what you're about to say is the beam according to Tesla would drop an army in its tracks bringing down squadrons of airplanes 250 miles away Tesla pointed out that the weapon is purely one of defense since his beam must be generated in Great in move immovable power plants

I mean he's completely lost Now he's just now he's just grasping it once you make a death ray death rays fixing children Yeah, talking to Mars. Yeah, a lot of shit going on here. Yeah, let's see if it's a little too much on January 7th 1943 Tesla died at the age of 86 of coronary Thumbrosis in his bed at the new hotel New Yorker where he resided the FBI sees papers from his room two days later He held over 700 patents which included the modern electric motor remote control wireless transmission of energy Basic laser and radar technology Wow the first neon and fluorescent illumination first x-ray photographs the wireless

Vacuum tube the air friction speedometer for automobiles and the Tesla coil Which is widely used in radio television sets and other? electronic equipment and the death ray and the death ray Wow, that's crazy. Now the reason that I decided to do this one because there were so many stories about About these two. Yeah, a lot of which are fiction there there is Edison was at one point blamed for electrocuting an elephant, uh-huh because it's all elephants used to get executed all the time

Well, I might do a doll on that But it's so horrifying that I decided not to do it. Yeah, but so he killed They think he killed that isn't but it actually wasn't him. It was just a company in New York called the New York Edison. It was just a company It wasn't actually he actually nothing to do with it. It was just a company named after right so people think to this day I think that he killed Topsy the elephant. I think it's topsy the elephant topsy, but he didn't actually do it So there's a lot as long as tops. He died a lot of the a lot of the Tesla

Edison Battleship didn't pan out. It wasn't real a lot of it's so like right probably because they were trying to slander at one another Probably yeah, yeah, and then now people have taken sides as like the whole you know people on reddit They're like Tesla was the fucking man like you know, it's totally at least I'm glad we can't bury the hatchet on this way All right, well listen Yeah Crazy Happy dollop dollops. Oh