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by moylan 5145 days ago
if it was just a grudge match between tesla and edison i could respect edison a little more. it is possible to get so obsessed that he would have a blind spot and go out of his way to engage a competitor. think steve jobs promising to go nuclear on android. but edison went out of his way to profit from the work of Georges Méliès. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon#Distributio...