Because Tesla had a prototype? Because Tesla was a genius and said it did, and has the credibility to support it? Because JP Morgan shut it down after finding out it would've been free energy? Because we have the means for wireless, though currently rudimentary by comparison, energy transfer?
I wish I had your ability to throw away contradictory opinions, points, et al and still believe mine superior.
AC power is the superior distribution system for carrying electricity great distances. If Edison hadn't spent so much time suppressing Tesla's achievements, or besmirching his work, we're talking about potentially speeding up the technological timeline of humanity by decades.. and that's just when you consider AC power. Not any of the other inventions Tesla may have had the resources to invent, implement, or tinker with further had Edison not done his best to blackball him. "Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you’re working on." - Thomas Edison.
The first powerplant to use alternating current was built about 10 years after Tesla patented it. So Edison set us back one decade. Tesla may have been intelligent and may have had a lot of ideas, but saying every idea would have worked is giving him a little too much credit. And contrary to popular belief, Edison's sole purpose in life wasn't to steal other people's work. That quote also just describes innovation.
not to mention that Edison kinda executed animals with Tesla's AC current to prove that it was dangerous (which DC is also capable of)
Of course not, but he tinkered. What he did came from him and him alone, whereas Edison's ideas came from (besides the obvious: theft and intimidation) sweatshop think-tanks. "I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work" - Thomas Edison If Tesla ****ed up 10,000 times trying to make the ****ing lightbulb, he probably would have killed himself. Especially if the lightbulb was invented by his research and development staff, not him personally, and groundwork was already completed by tens of other people since 1801.
That's not true. Many of Tesla's "inventions" were actually innovations, such as the radio, the induction motor, and even AC current. I don't think there has been anyone since the invention of the wheel that has truly "invented" anything. Again, that quote describes what most scientists do on a daily basis. And now you're calling Tesla a quitter?
I researched Tesla a lot in high school and always found him much more fascinating than Edison. While the man behind the Oatmeal may have exaggerated the differences, I would put Tesla above Edison in importance.
I love how I said I donated three dollars to a museum just to say I helped found the museum and it exploded into an everybody (possibly including the notable Furry x Furry) vs. Security debate of whether or not that asshole edison was an asshole. And Edison will go down in layman's history as the inventor of the lightbulb and the educated man's history as the overlord of the practise of putting your name on a large group effort (notable members of this dark side: Master Steve Jobs who overshadowed Wozniak and Journeyman Al Gore who overshadowed those who helped create the internet)
Wheel is just a better sled. The inventor of the sled didn't invent the physics, or the idea that sliding things is less arduous than carrying them in hand. A better version of a currently existing form, thing or method is still an invention. Hell, even a less useful version of a currently existing thing is still an invention if it achieves the result through a different way than has been thought before. But even for the inventor of "the durable" lightbulb, Edison didn't do much work himself. If you invented in his employ, he was the accredited inventor, and if you didn't like that, out come the bats.