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Celestial-Todd said:Saying Tesla invented electricity is like saying Alexander Grahame Bell invented speaking.... all they did was discover a way to truely harness it (with Tesla, the alternating current... Bell, the telephone).
Yup. In actual fact, what he did was discover a way to generate and harness *alternating* current effectively. New York was already wired up and had *direct* current electric power for about 18 years before Tesla even emigrated.
(He did a lot more than that as well, such as three phase power and the radio, but it's still no invention of electricity)