A story in today’s Journal documents the rise of Teslamania — the transfer of adoration from square old Thomas Edison to cool Nikola Tesla among today’s creative classes — over a century after the inventors’ initial battle over alternating versus direct current.
From the WSJ article: “‘I can’t imagine writing a song about Edison… too boringly rich, entrepreneurial and successful!’ said Andy McCluskey, a founder of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.”
Back in 1940, Popular Science celebrated Mickey Rooney (the Bowie of the prewar era) in his screen appearance as Young Thomas Edison.
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