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A Brief History of Tesla and the AC/DC Wars

By Kyle VanHemert Published July 10, 2010, 3:00 pm ET

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Today is inventor extraordinaire Nikola Tesla’s 154th birthday. To celebrate, someone made this gushing video overview of Tesla’s life, including a lengthy digression on how Thomas Edison was a “jerk.” Is this, I wonder, our very first Tesla fanboy? [Reddit]

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