re: #83 Alouette

We’d all be flying around in our own personal hyperspace transporters if Henry Ford and Thomas Edison hadn’t conspired together to take down Nikola Tesla!
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As brilliant of a mind that Edison was, he also had a reputation for being an absolute ass on the subject of technology that competed with his. Read up on the history of Edison versus Westinghouse and Tesla regarding AC vs DC electrical systems (Edison was the DC purist, btw).
Also, one of the big reasons that major film studios located in California during the early 1900s was because of Edison’s desire to monopolize motion picture technology, to the point of suing just about anyone who didn’t use his devices. California had a geographical distance advantage, as well as courts that weren’t in Edison’s back pocket.