From a recent article by Charles Runnells in the Fort Myers News-Press:
Fort Myers is a Thomas Edison town.
The inventor lived right here on McGregor Boulevard in what’s now a museum called the Edison & Ford Winter Estates. We even have a huge night-time parade every year to celebrate our famous winter resident and one of his most illuminating accomplishments, the modern light bulb.
But there’s another famous man who rivals Edison as perhaps the greatest inventive mind of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Nikola Tesla. And he’s gotten a boost in fame recently, thanks to a certain electric-car manufacturer named after the Serbian-American inventor.
The two inventors battled in the so-called War of the Currents over which kind of current would power the nation’s electrical grid: Tesla’s alternating current (AC) or Edison’s direct current (DC).
Tesla won that war. But why let that rivalry die?
The inventors are fighting once again on the gallery walls at Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center in downtown Fort Myers. The new art exhibit is called — what else? — “Tesla Vs. Edison.”
The exhibit, which runs through June 28, looks at not only the men’s inventions, but at the many differences in their styles and personalities.
To read more about the new exhibit, as well as its fascinating study of opposites, click here!
