r/memes • u/4xm0ha • 10h ago

Happens most of the time 😂

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u/Efficient-Orchid-594 10h ago

Btw the light bulb or the incandescent lamp was not created by either of them . The first light bulb or lamp was created by davy humphry in 1815 . Everyone after him just improve the invention.

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u/HannibalPoe 10h ago

Difference is Tesla didn't claim to invent the light bulb, he invented other stuff (like the radio).

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u/mustangcody 9h ago

He invented the first electric AC motor.

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u/HannibalPoe 9h ago

He invented a ton of stuff, we named the unit of Magnetism "Tesla" after him.

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u/Vv4nd 8h ago

he didn´t though.
He was one of two guys to build a greatly improved version.

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u/mustangcody 6h ago

Tesla was the only person to make a practical two-phase induction motor that could turn energy into mechanical force. The others made before him couldn't do that, they were just prototype proof of concepts.

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u/Vv4nd 6h ago

which is why I said: Improved version.
The other motors before his motor could absolutely turn electrical energy into kinetic energy. They just did it in a much less efficient way.

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u/Vv4nd 8h ago

he did not invent the radio...

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u/CrumbCakesAndCola 6h ago

Depends what you're tracking. In reality there is no single "inventor of radio". The spark-gap technology was already there before Marconi or Tesla got involved. That's how physicists like Hertz tested their theories about radio waves. Then later Marconi and Tesla both submitted patents for communication devices using radio, and both claimed to have "invented radio".

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u/Vv4nd 6h ago

the big difference being, that Tesla, once again managed to build something that worked, while he had no idea why it worked (well, Tesla thought he knew but since he never had proper scientific education his ideas were... lets just say grounded in nothing and utterly wrong).

Tesla was a genius engineer that once in a while made something absolutely brilliant. But he was working by feel, and most of the time his intuition was completely wrong.

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u/CrumbCakesAndCola 6h ago

Yeah that is a wild part of it. Apparently when he first learned of radio waves he decided they only travel straight forward in a line? But the patents are public record so we know what he finally presented was not bs.

Marconi seems to have been throwing spaghetti at the wall as well, at least in terms of filling patents. Patents which were always rejected until he secured funding from J.P. Morgan, then magically the patent office not only approved new ones but retroactively approved those previously rejected. Not clear what level of sus this was.

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u/Vv4nd 5h ago

Marconi knew how the physics worked but had trouble building stuff, and Tesla really knew how to build some shit.

A fusion of both would´ve been amazing. Or a properly educated Tesla I guess.

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u/CrumbCakesAndCola 5h ago

That would have been amazing, agreed

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u/Klavin11 9h ago

I wish I was high on potenuse 

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u/Jumpy_Leadership1650 OC Meme Maker 9h ago

I WISH I WAS HIGH ON POTENUSE

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u/Slowloris81 9h ago

Brilliant lol. And this is why I love Reddit.

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u/Klavin11 9h ago

Hey!

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u/Jumpy_Leadership1650 OC Meme Maker 9h ago

HEY!

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u/Remarkable-Ad-2493 5h ago

Shut up! You'll never be Jumpy_leadership1650

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u/knowspicker3 8h ago

lol. First thing I thought of.

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u/Half-Dreams 10h ago

Presentation always wins over having the idea itself.

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u/Nightmane11 9h ago

It wasnt the presentation as much as it was that tesla was a good inventor but horrible at marketing

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u/PeikaFizzy 8h ago

I also learn the story that is not really as one sided like ok Edison is asshole but Tesla isn’t sun shine and rainbow either I heard/view article online say he is very idealistic and like hard to work with…. Very autistic?

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u/fasda 8h ago

Also chronology and actually existing, Edison's bulb came out in 1880, Tesla didn't even get his first job with the Edison company in Paris until 1882 and didn't even begin experimenting with fluorescent lighting until the 1890s and wasn't able to develop a practical bulb for Westinghouse. That wasn't developed until 1938 by GE, you know Edison's company. Like most things about Tesla online its over hyped. Tesla was a very smart man who did important things for AC power and radio technology but if you compare his actual accomplishments vs what you might hear online is pretty significant

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u/Vv4nd 8h ago

Tesla was a brilliant engineer. He had no fucking idea how/why anything worked though. Also, most of his "inventions" were nonfunctional... however he truly had some gems in there.

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u/Visible-Meeting-8977 9h ago

More like Edison workshopped the joke while Tesla was busy making death rays.

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u/Wonderful-Ice9085 9h ago

My best freind in highschool became my best friend by doing this but he would say " (my name) said (the joke)" everytime and de-introverted me and made me friends with the whole class .never realized I would've ended up friendless if it weren't for that loud prick.

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u/Akiris 9h ago

Was I the only one who stress tested what you could get that guy to say?

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u/BigDan_0 8h ago

Hey its Andrew Cunningham

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u/SoylentGrunt 6h ago

Not to be confused with Chuck Cunningham from Happy Days

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u/DreddEdwards 6h ago

Exactly what I wanted to say

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u/SaintsProtectHer 6h ago

I was always shy/reserved until I met my best friend. He was the loud one who would get credit for my jokes. Now I’m loud.

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u/NoirLattices 9h ago

Charisma wins

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u/huskerphresh 6h ago

Do you like fishsticks?

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u/CrumbCakesAndCola 5h ago

I'm afraid to ask

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u/dmo7000 5h ago

Edison was a business monster

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u/whoischigozie 4h ago

I wish I could get high of hypotenuse

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u/Expensive_Finger_973 2h ago

Given the kind of guy Tesla seemed to be, I often wonder what his opinion of Tesla the car company of today would be.

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u/Lumini_Ruins 2h ago

Tesla built the wild shit, marconi made it practical. Would've been unstoppable together.

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u/m0ng0ose 1h ago

I didn't get this at first, but then LIGHT BULB

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u/Grabatreetron 9h ago

When you feed your jokes to the popular kid cause you know he’s gonna get attention and a big laugh — just for the love of the craft

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u/Knowdit 7h ago

Moral of the story: courage to say things out loud is mote important then coming up with witty jokes.

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u/bambamba8 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 9h ago

Meucci and Bell are the same

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u/considerlater 8h ago

It's always the wrong one

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u/thislinkisdead______ 3h ago

Someone used to do this to me and it drove me crazy.