Should we discard achievements made by unlikable people?

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Newton was an ass. Don't even get me started on Tesla.

Edison could have invented 3 phase AC electric power except he couldn't do the mathematics involved.

I had it in sparky school 35 years ago, and managed to 'get it' but fortunately my subsequent career path never intersected that stuff.

Shit, we got 3-phase electricity training in "A" school in the US Navy ('73), and I was a mechanic (Machinist's Mate). Taint all that difficult. We all study a vast swath of technical topics at the university. I know a ton of nuclear stuff from the Navy, but never used it in civilian life, except for a few months in '84. I used the 5 semesters of electromagnetic theory for far more time.

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Edison could have invented 3 phase AC electric power except he couldn't do the mathematics involved.

I had it in sparky school 35 years ago, and managed to 'get it' but fortunately my subsequent career path never intersected that stuff.

He was just too obsessed with DC power to bother, and if he did figure it out, he'd probably be doing more shit like this:






I probably should have done a content warning of some kind, but given that A) the title gives it all away, and B) the makers of built AN ENTIRE EPISODE around this clip and it still got a TV-PG, I guess the point is moot.

EDIT: Okay, for some reason, the forum won't allow me to post the words "The makers of Bob's Burgers built an entire episode around this clip" without some of the words vanishing. Why?

That part must be classified secret.