Talk:Nikola Tesla/@comment-101.109.86.96-20160101123753/@comment-92.60.239.182-20160420211013

Here's an actual story about Tesla and Edison.

Tesla was a modest fellow coming from a far away land in Europe known as Serbia, when he got to America he only had 4 cents on him. After a meeting with Edison about a job working for him, Edison told Tesla he would pay him $50,000 if Tesla could improve his patents and DC generator.

Tesla was mostly glad to finally work in a real laboratory, since the funding Edison had was nothing compard to what Tesla had to work with until then.

When Tesla delivered after months of hard work, Edison told him "Nikola I was only joking, you do not get our American humor" and refused to pay him.

Tesla quit after that and he never got the recognition he desereved for anything he worked on while in Edisons lab.

Later in life, he was an outcast living in a small village that he powered with electricity himself, he died a virgin with no friends, money or fame, known as the crazy guy who talks about death rays and fucks birds.

Without him we would still need a powerplant at every street corner to live the way we live today.