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Comment on Elon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do.

hakase@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Edison didn’t do any damage to Tesla’s name, and by all contemporary accounts the two men seem to have supported each other the brief time they were together and parted ways amicably.

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Klear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Not sure if the video you linked addresses is but I want to add that the whole Edison vs Tesla internet thing was started a The Oatmeal comic, which was packed with inaccuracies, exaggerations and outright lies.

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- turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Popularized definitely, he was working off an at the time recent pop history book about Tesla.
  
  Tesla’s been the subject of a lot of weird counter-cultural co-opting since his death. Kinda like Che but for electricity instead of marxism.
  
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