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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Thomas Edison vs Nikola Tesla

So recently  I have been watching these american genius movies on Netflix and I think that they are really cool. One of them that I liked a lot was Thomas Edison vs Nikola Tesla. One thing I noticed about them that sometimes the inventor invents it but then another person makes them better, so this one is like that. So Thomas Edison had a shop and he had people who were making stuff and trying to make electricity in a light bulb. Soon Thomas Edison found out how to do it. He had invented the light bulb. He showed his people in his shop and they thought it was awesome but there was one problem. He couldn't put it into people's homes because there was no plug back then! So the there was another problem think of a power plant then Thomas Edison tried his bulb but it didn't go that far so it could only go to the houses right next to it. But then Nikola Tesla came around he was a young man and he showed Thomas Edison that he was very smart and showed him about alternating current. It could go to very far places like from California to Colorado. But Thomas Edison did not like alternating Current because it was way to dangerous. He told Tesla that if he found out to make his light bulb stronger then he would give him a lot of money. So Tesla sent off to work and after some time he made the light bulb stronger and went to Thomas Edison and asked for his money but Thomas Edison wouldn't give it to him, so Tesla ran away and found a really rich guy and he showed him his light bulb. The man liked it and would help him to make it better. So Tesla was making his with Alternating current and Thomas Edison wasn't so Tesla's was a lot better but it was dangerous so he started to use Transforming that we still use today. But after some time the rich guy was going to go bankrupt so Tesla Tore up all of his Patents and he died alone and without a penny in his pocket. We still use Tesla's alternating current today but Thomas Edison invented it.