In this chaotic Drunken History episode, Halley and Blaire stumble through the electrifying feud between Thomas Edison, the greedy showman who stole ideas as easily as he shocked animals for PR and Nikola Tesla—the eccentric genius with wild experiments and an unsettling devotion to pigeons . Together, we drunkenly unravel their inventions, their pettiness, and how their rivalry changed the course of history forever.
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⚡ Edison vs. Nikola Tesla — Source List
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World – Jill Jonnes
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age – W. Bernard Carlson
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691164543/tesla
Edison: A Life of Invention – Paul Israel
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Edison%3A+A+Life+of+Invention-p-9780471362706
The Executioner’s Current – Mark Essig
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/121694/the-executioners-current-by-mark-essig/
Tesla: Man Out of Time – Margaret Cheney
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tesla/Margaret-Cheney/9780743215367
Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla – John J. O’Neill
https://archive.org/details/prodigalgeniusli00onei
War of the Currents (Overview)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents
Edison vs. Tesla – U.S. Department of Energy
https://www.energy.gov/articles/edison-vs-tesla
How Edison, Tesla, and Westinghouse Battled to Electrify America – History.com
https://www.history.com/articles/what-was-the-war-of-the-currents
Thomas Edison & Nikola Tesla Feud – Biography.com
https://www.biography.com/inventors/thomas-edison-nikola-tesla-feud
Edison Papers Project – Rutgers University
https://edison.rutgers.edu/
