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Nikola Tesla vs. Thomas Edison: Who was the better inventor?

Nikola Tesla would have celebrated his 164th birthday today (July 10).

The Serbian-American scientist was a brilliant and eccentric genius whose inventions enabled modern-day power and mass communication systems.

His nemesis and former boss, Thomas Edison, was the iconic American inventor of the light bulb, the phonograph and the moving picture. The two feuding geniuses waged a "War of Currents" in the 1880s over whose electrical system would power the world — Tesla's alternating-current (AC) system or Edison's rival direct-current (DC) electric power.

Amongst science nerds, few debates get more heated than the ones that compare Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. So, who was the better inventor?

"They're different inventors, but you can't really say one is greater, because American society needs some Edisons and it needs some Teslas" said W. Bernard Carlson, the author of "Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age" (Princeton Press, 2013).

From their starkly different personalities to their lasting legacies, here's

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Why Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla Clashed During the Battle of the Currents

Thomas Edison is widely known as one of history’s most consequential inventors, a legacy born of both his indisputable genius in the laboratory and noted ruthlessness as a businessman; the old adage is that history is written by the victors, and in Edison’s case, he spun his narrative in real-time. Sometimes, as in the case of inventions developed by contemporaries such as Nikola Tesla, that meant bending the truth a little bit.

Born in 1847, at the very end of the industrial revolution, Edison was part of a new wave of scientists and inventors that lit the way into the modern era. His famed research lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey hosted the development of innovations that still undergird much of our industrial and consumer infrastructure, including the phonograph (which recorded and played sound), motion pictures and the light bulb. His work there was so important that the town in which Menlo Park was located now bears his name.

Obsessed with his work and known to be an exacting boss, Edison had a

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Edison vs. Tesla: The Battle of Two Titans that Shaped the Electricity We Consume

At the end of the nineteenth century these two inventors were working on a way to produce electricity on a large scale to light up the world: alternating current and direct current. It was a war between the businessman versus the dreamer

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Mankind has spent most of its 300,000 years of history lighting itself with campfires, fires, or candles. It was in 1863 when the British James Clerk Maxwell discovered the laws of electromagnetism that made it possible to know how this energy behaved. From then on, a race to domesticate it and put it at the service of humans was unleashed.

One of the first to take advantage of it was Thomas Alva Edison. This American, born in a town called Milan, Ohio, in 1847, had grown up with the instinct to ask questions about everything. For example, he once wanted to know how the hay would burn. Was it fast burning? How did it smell? Does the flame jump to neighboring objects, or does it extinguish itself? So little Edison decided to set fire to th