Comment on Elon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do.
Klear@lemmy.world 3 days agoNot 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.
turmacar@lemmy.world 2 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.