Tesla vs Edison: The War of the Currents as a Pixel Art Fighting Game

Tesla vs Edison, the War of the Currents, played as a two-player pixel-art fighting game on one split timer. Nine famous myths get checked on the way, from the light bulb to Topsy the elephant. Every fact has a source (list below). Where historians disagree, the video says so. CHAPTERS 0:00 Start: Tesla vs Edison, the War of the Currents 0:36 World 1: Edison and Tesla's early lives 1:45 World 2: Who really invented the light bulb? 3:01 World 3: Pearl Street Station and Tesla's AC motor idea 3:52 World 4: Tesla worked for Edison, and the 50,000 dollar myth 5:05 World 5: Tesla's AC motor and the Westinghouse deal 6:04 World 6: The AC smear campaign and the first electric chair 7:41 World 7: J.P. Morgan and the birth of General Electric 8:35 World 8: The 1893 Chicago World's Fair, lit by AC 9:20 World 9: Niagara Falls power and the end of the war 10:10 World 10: Tesla, Marconi and the race for radio 10:59 World 11: Topsy the elephant and the Nobel Prize myth 12:08 World 12: How Edison and Tesla died, and DC's comeback 13:39 Final: The whole rivalry in one 99-second round SOURCES AIEE (1917): http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1917-05... Edison Papers: https://edison.rutgers.edu/life-of-ed... Nikola Tesla Museum: https://tesla-museum.org/en/nikola-te... Tesla (1919): http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1919-00... Edison Papers: https://edison.rutgers.edu/life-of-ed... Edison Papers: https://edison.rutgers.edu/life-of-ed... NPS: https://www.nps.gov/edis/learn/histor... Tesla Science Center: https://teslasciencecenter.org/pivota... Edison Papers: https://edison.rutgers.edu/life-of-ed... US DOE: https://www.energy.gov/articles/histo... Quote Investigator (2012): https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07... NPS: https://www.nps.gov/edis/faqs.htm Science Museum Group: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup... Edison Papers: https://edison.rutgers.edu/life-of-ed... IEEE Milestone: https://ethw.org/Milestones:Pearl_Str... Lee (2007): https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20... Edison Papers: https://edison.rutgers.edu/life-of-ed... Reynolds and Bernstein (1989): https://simson.net/ref/1989/Edison_an... Smithsonian NMAH: https://americanhistory.si.edu/lighti... King (2013): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor... PBS American Experience (2016): https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe... O'Neill (1944): https://www.rastko.rs/istorija/tesla/... Prout (1921): https://archive.org/download/cu319240... IEEE Milestone: https://ethw.org/Milestones:Alternati... IEEE Milestone: https://ethw.org/Milestones:Rotating_... PBS (2000): https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ Electrical World (1888): https://archive.org/details/sim_elect... Edison Papers: https://edisondigital.rutgers.edu/doc... Lantero (2014): https://www.energy.gov/articles/war-c... Cleveland (1893): https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/docum... IEEE Milestone: https://ethw.org/Milestones:Adams_Hyd... Electrical Review (1896): https://reference.insulators.info/pub... Edison Papers: https://edison.rutgers.edu/life-of-ed... PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe... Lindqvist (2020): https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/... Nobel archive: https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination... Nobel archive: https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination... Hoover (1931): https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/docum... The Henry Ford: https://www.thehenryford.org/collecti... Nikola Tesla Museum: https://tesla-museum.org/en/nikola-te... US Supreme Court (1943): https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremeco... BIPM (1960): https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cg... Which topic should we speedrun next? Tell us in the comments. #nikolatesla #thomasedison #history #pixelart #speedrun #electricity