Thought for the day...

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
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Watching the documentary on Tesla, I thought it was him that was very naive where business was concerned and got used royally by Edison who took advantage of him.
Max.
What has always drawn my attention, is that neither of them had true scientific backgrounds ... but were rather hands on tinkerers that got most things done by trial and error ... of course, Tesla was the more knowledgeable of the two, but he was not a true scientist either.
 

SamR

Joined Mar 19, 2019
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Tesla was a bit more formally educated but was a certified nut case. Most likely schizophrenic and certainly OCD with a ton of various phobias. Edison was most certainly intelligent and surrounded himself with extremely smart employees doing his bidding. He was also quite a bit OCD but nowhere near fruitcake level that Tesla was.
 
What has always drawn my attention, is that neither of them had true scientific backgrounds ... but were rather hands on tinkerers that got most things done by trial and error ... of course, Tesla was the more knowledgeable of the two, but he was not a true scientist either.
That’s because they were both engineers…not scientists.

Scientists study things…engineers build things.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
16,330
It has often been the case in history, From Michael Faraday to Leonardo da Vinci.! :cool:
Not even formal education.
Max.
Michael Faraday was a true scientist but he was not known for mathematics (I can argue that pure mathematics is not science). He was renown as a chemist and used this vast scientific physical knowledge to explore the new science of electricity as a proper physicist as his theories have withstood the passage of time unlike Tesla.

Tesla has a scientific measurement unit named after him.
Faraday has a Physics Law with his name on it.
 
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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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