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		acqq on Feb 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One Story of Nikola Tesla Did you know that the electric chair "invention" was funded by Edison in the "war of currents" again Tesla: http://inventors.about.com/od/hstartinventions/a/Electric_Ch... Edison also organized electrocutions of animals: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3582295

prajjwal on Feb 12, 2012 [–]

Yes I did, but I found this stuff out when I was 15(I'm 19 now). Before that, from what I had been taught, we used to count Edison among the greatest minds of all time. Sad. Nobody knew about/bothered to even mention the great mind that was Tesla.

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