Nikola Tesla or Thomas Edison.  Who was the superior mind?
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Both were extremely hard working and expected the same from assistants.\n\nTesla had much the better initial education and, arguably, the greater endowment of intellect.  He was more persistent than stubborn and much less given to pettiness.  I suspect he had far greater ethical standards.  He was not so focused on money, and had not Westinghouse greatly assisted him, his life might have been more obscure.\n\nTesla had much the better grasp of the limitless potentials within matter and electricity.  In many ways he presaged much of modern science, including things yet to be developed.\n\nThomas Edison was considerably more petty and cranky, though an astute manager of business affairs in comparison to Tesla.  He was an extremely hard worker and never let up once focused on developing something.  He is famous for his quotation that "genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" -- in other words, lots of hard work.  Edison is all the more remarkable for having had very little formal schooling.\n\nUndoubtedly, both were great self-learners.  Tesla's ideas prevailed in the electric power industry, and many remnants of his thinking are still being explored.  Unfortunately, there is a dearth of this material.  Tesla's remaining papers and inventions and apparatus were either destroyed or confiscated by the United States Government.\n\nIn their effects upon society, I tend to rank them as equals.  Both contributed to the age of electricity and electrical products about equally.\n\nAs people, I am much more interested in Tesla, and would prefer to work under such a person were I young once more.  In the long run, Tesla is more intriguing, but I think Edison is much more famous with more ordinary people, especially in the USA.\n\nFor superior mind:  Tesla, without a doubt.
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Albert Einstein of course
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There's debate that that actually happened.  The prevailing theory of the time was though, no joke, that in order to study electricty, you first had to experience it first hand.\n\nOther things he did:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
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I think Isaac Newton might have been as good, considering the limitations of his own time. Just remember he had to develop a new whole math to support his theories! (calculus) Then I dunno, but today Stephen Hawking? Have you read a brief history of time and the universe in a nutshell? I dunno, really, Einstein was GREAT!
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Thomas Alva Edison did not invent Electricity. \n\nThomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. \nHe was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.\n\nHistory of electricity - \n\nThe ancient Greeks and Parthians knew of static electricity from rubbing objects against fur.\n\nThough Benjamin Franklin's famous "invention" of electricity by flying a kite in a thunderstorm turned out to be more fiction than fact, his theories on the relationship between lightning and static electricity sparked the interest of later scientists whose work provided the basis for modern electrical technology. Most notably these include Luigi Galvani (1737–1798), Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), Michael Faraday (1791–1867), André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), and Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854).
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Ben Franklin discovered electricity when he was visiting Mars. They have electrical storms something fierce up there, if memory serves me correctly.
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Thomas Edison - invented the light bulb in 1879.
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nobody invented electrisity, its always been their, the better question may be; Who discovered it?
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It wasn't really invented by Benjamin Franklyn but it was discovered by him. He was the first to realise that lightning was a power that somehow could be harnessed for the good of mankind. It was other scientists in Europe who actually did harness the power. But before all that, there were parlor toys people used to catch static electricity and show sparks but that type is not powerful.Edison had nothing to do with the creation of electricity but his genius invented a ton of stuff for us to use it in.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla\n\nI'm not sure which device of his you are refering to, but wikipedia's page on him is surprisingly comprehensive, and there is a list of his devices on the right-hand side with links/diagrams\n\nHope that helps!
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isaac newton i mean sometimes he would sit on the end of his bed half dressed thinking about gravity\n\nor maybe edison he would find like 500 ways of not making a light bulb but all he would say is "i have not failed i have found 500 more ways to not make a light bulb work!"
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As Thomas Edison said, genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.  No good idea ever got off the drawing board without an inspired and energetic person behind it.
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Benjamin Franklin but a lot of scientists contributed in the discovery. It all started 600 BC with the greeks followed by Dr William Gilbert,Benjamin Franklin,Galvani and Volta,Michael Faraday,Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan,George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla,James Watt and finally Andre Ampere and George Ohm
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I'm leaning towardsThomas Edison.
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overall i'd say e=mc2-einstein of course. his theory is 100 years+ old & has yet tobe proven because science hasn't caught up yet in the modern era & the internet & computers & science universally. immediately the profound effects of what thomas edison has done by far contributed the most. have you ever lost power for more than two days. i never have until last year. let me tell you it was rather bleak. water got bad. food got bad. no fresh air & no a/c.thomas edison is #1. not to say the alexander graham bells, the polio vaccine, the x-ray inventor who died from the process of discovery, & much more have all been significant factors to our well being and yes the nuclear people are included for better & for worse.
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Nikola Tesla.\n\nBecause he thought it wouldn't cause lights to flicker for anyone.
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His name was Alessandro Volta.  Alessandro Volta discovered the first practical method of generating electricity.  In 1800, he arranged zinc and copper discs in a column and invented the battery.  His most famous invention was the voltic pile. \n\nThese links should give you all the good stuff!