Tesla’s technologies were bought by railway air brake inventor George Westinghouse who developed them into what became the multinational Westinghouse company. Edison is the godfather of General Electric, presently the world’s 12th largest company. Both these guys were prolific inventors and became famous for it. But comparing them on a point by point basis, the reasons why Edison died rich and famous while Tesla died broke and lonely become clear based on relative productivity.
Thomas Edison and Nicole Tesla are different scholars.
For me the most successful manager is Edison, even Tesla has worked for him. He has been collecting successful scientists, his research laboratories have been development activities.
On the other hand, Nicole Tesla did not need scientists to help him.
The fact is, over the past 20 years, that there is a device to regulate the start and revolutions asynchronous motor that Tesla has invented.
He is a scientist working generically - from production to consumption.
Everyone knows that his inventions are at the core of telecoms and many other applications we use today.
Many of his inventions have not yet been tested because the equipment is missing.
Only one problem is that there are almost no completed projects with a profit. Tesla hasn't been good menager.
In my opinion, Tesla's importance as a scientist will grow in the years to come.
There are many more criteria, but I can not be an evaluator of these two great scientists.
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system.
Georgina-Djuka Tesla (Tesla's mother) was gifted with a sense of intuition and bestowed inventiveness on her children. Nikola Tesla was born "at the stroke of midnight" during a summer storm and lightning. The midwife commented, "He'll be a child of the storm," to which Djuka replied, "No, of light."
There should be no comparison within scholars, but there should be competition. By having competition one may improve and be competent than others. Coming to Thomas Edison and Nicole Tesla both are good scholars.
It is very difficult to point one out as more important than the other. Edison's inventions changed the everyday life of the human being at the turn of the nineteenth century to the twentieth, while Tesla is responsible for a revolution in the way we use electric power.
Personally speaking, I prefer both to be successful and that's because succession has a complicated meaning.
In one side Edison starts a kind of revolution in the experience of electrical engineering at his time with great inventions like electric lighting or iron separator.
On the other hand, Tesla with his behaviors and Ingenuity in many fields like alternating current (AC), make a myth of his attitude.
So, it is hard to say which of them is the successful scholar because both of them are successful in some angle of view.
Dear Teodora Hristova Agree with the assessment that both Edison and Tesla are eminent scholars. Edison was more able to multiply his finding into the practical but Tesla had more paradigm changing potential. Also agree that scholar comparison is both difficult and may not be very useful. I think Tesla had more potential but Edison had more ability to tap into politics of technology adoption. Edison was able to better multiply his talent through recruited talent. Too bad that Tesla unique talent could not have been more empowered because he had more potential to dramatically improve the world we live in.
Nikola Tesla was a genius before his time. He predicted about the INTERNET. In 1900, he wrote an article for Century Magazine describing a "world system" of wireless communications that could send telephone messages, news, music, and pictures to any part of the world.
I would believe that Thomas Edison and Nicole Tesla are good and best scholars in their fields of expertise. One cannot be compared with other. Both are equally efficient, good and successful scholars.
Both of them are. No need of comparison here. They both excelled individually in their chosen field and career and contributed significantly to the needs of human
All of them are important, but the most important ones are those that inspired them and worked on their education in terms of logic, research, experience and patience.