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Wright, Craig M.
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Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.
Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.
Electrical engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
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Wright, Craig M.
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.
Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.
Electrical engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
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The
scientific
genius
(and
rivalry
) of
Thomas
Edison
and
Nikola
Tesla
[videorecording (DVD)] / a video lecture presented by Craig Wright.
by
Wright, Craig M.
Dreamscape Media, LLC, [2021].
Call #:
DVD 621.30922 W947s
Subjects
Edison
,
Thomas
A. (
Thomas
Alva), 1847-1931.
Tesla
,
Nikola
, 1856-1943.
Electrical engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
Alternate title:
One Day University. The
scientific
genius
(and
rivalry
) of
Thomas
Edison
and
Nikola
Tesla
[videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] /
Description:
1 videodisc (42 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Home use only.
Closed-captioned.
Performers:
Lecturer, Craig Wright, Yale University.
Summary:
"When
Thomas
Edison
died on October 18, 1931, the lights went out. In his honor, President Herbert Hoover asked Americans everywhere to turn off their
Edison
lightbulbs at 10 p.m. on the evening of his funeral. '
Thomas
Edison
--
Genius
Inventor -- Dies at 84' screamed the front-page headline in the New York Daily News. When
Nikola
Tesla
died in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel on January 7, 1943, the lights went out for him alone.
Tesla
was surrounded, not by a family, but by his pet pigeons (among his eccentricities were Columbophilia and Triphilia -- look at his room number). The obituary in The New York Times did not call
Tesla
a
genius
. Instead, its final paragraphs implied he was a crackpot:
Tesla
had conceived of a 'death beam' powerful enough to annihilate an army of 1,000,000 soldiers; and he was certain of intergalactic messaging that would allow communication with Mars. The Times obituary implicitly posed this question: Was
Tesla
a visionary
genius
or a lunatic?
Edison
and
Tesla
(
Edison
's one-time employee) were arch-enemies with competing visions as to how to electrically empower America. Their hostility played out in the infamous War of the Currents, which culminated in the electrocution of Topsy the circus elephant in 1903, orchestrated and filmed by
Edison
, but intentionally using
Tesla
's controversial AC current. Radio, television, robots, electric cars, self-driving cars, solar heating, the internet, and the cellphone were on the mind of one or the other of these geniuses. Which one ultimately proved to have the more accurate and enduring vision for the world? Who is in the news today and why? Come and find out the answers."--Container.
"One Day University presents a series of video lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice."--Container.
Genre:
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
One Day University.
Dreamscape Media.
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