+179 If it were not for Thomas Edison, we would all be watching television in the dark, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Gosh, imagine trying to find the remote with no light...thank God for Edison. The BEST American president ever.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

SOOO True! Im glad someone else agrees!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm sure I'm misunderstanding this post, but Edison pioneered the use of DC current, which is how televisions work... Do I not get the joke?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You do not get the joke.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Help me out.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Not sure if possible...

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I first understood it as "Without Thomas Edison, we wouldn't have light bulbs, but so what, we have tons of other electronics." But that doesn't really make sense, as I already said. Was that not the point?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's pretty much the joke. Thomas Edison was responsible for the electricity behind both light and television, but the post doesn't acknowledge the latter. Now that I'm explaining it, it doesn't seem too funny anymore.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Sorry if I ruined it. But bringing up the latter seemed kind of important. Also I was just commenting about Edison on a different post when I saw this, so I was still in that mindset.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If not for Nikola Tesla, poor Thomas Edison would have no one to steal ideas from!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Exactly what I came to say. +1 good sir.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think if not by Edison, the lightbulb would still have been invented by someone else, years ago.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

WOOOSH

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Ahem, Tesla.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

While Tesla actually invented the lightbulb, and Edison did take the idea from him, Edison was the first to commercialize it. So without Edison, the commercializaton of the lightbulb would not have been. Granted, someone would have been bound to come along at some point and do it, maybe even Tesla, but Edison was at it first.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You can't commercialize something if isn't first invented.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Stand by for Tesla vs. Edison, Round 2.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

by Anonymous 11 years ago