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Flashcards by Andrea Pan, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Andrea Pan
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| Question | Answer |
| TESLA | Eidetic memory, meaning that he had the ability to remember images with very precise levels of detail, without the need to use mnemonics. |
| EDISON | His thing was sketching and repairing things. |
| Tesla Patents | He obtained less than 300 patents worldwide. |
| Edison Patents | He held 1,093 patents, as recorded by the Thomas Edison National Historical Park. |
| Personality Tesla | Charismatic, urbane and witty. He spoke several languages and had influential friends in the likes of writers Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling, He was also obsessive-compulsive and a hygiene fanatic. |
| Personality Edison | Introverted, with few close friends. He was one of the advisors behind the application of direct current in the first electric chair. |
| Education Tesla | He had a strong background and was able to solve technical problems that arose mentally without resorting to experiments. |
| Education Edison | Edison had no formal education and all his inventions were based on trial, trial, and error. |
| AC Tesla | Alternating Current It allowed electricity generated in power stations to be raised to a high voltage and transported over enormous distances with almost no energy losses. This established itself as the best way of distributing electricity. |
| DC Edison | Direct current A more expensive and inefficient system due to the dissipation of part of the energy in the form of heat. Nowadays, this type of current is mainly used for elements that are powered by batteries. |
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Our entire mass communication system is based on the system that Tesla designed. |
| Innovation Edison | Edison's clearest legacy to the world was his invention factories, which divided the process into small tasks performed by legions of workers. |
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