In this chaotic Drunken History episode, Halley and Blaire stumble through the electrifying feud between Thomas Edison, the greedy showman who stole ideas as easily as he shocked animals for PR and Nikola Tesla—the eccentric genius with wild experiments and an unsettling devotion to pigeons . Together, we drunkenly unravel their inventions, their pettiness, and how their rivalry changed the course of history forever.

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⚡ Edison vs. Nikola Tesla — Source List

Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World – Jill Jonnes

• https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/59877/empires-of-light-by-jill-jonnes/

• Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age – W. Bernard Carlson
  https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691164543/tesla

• Edison: A Life of Invention – Paul Israel
  https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Edison%3A+A+Life+of+Invention-p-9780471362706

• The Executioner’s Current – Mark Essig
  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/121694/the-executioners-current-by-mark-essig/

• Tesla: Man Out of Time – Margaret Cheney
  https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tesla/Margaret-Cheney/9780743215367

• Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla – John J. O’Neill
  https://archive.org/details/prodigalgeniusli00onei

• War of the Currents (Overview)
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents

• Edison vs. Tesla – U.S. Department of Energy
  https://www.energy.gov/articles/edison-vs-tesla

• How Edison, Tesla, and Westinghouse Battled to Electrify America – History.com
  https://www.history.com/articles/what-was-the-war-of-the-currents

• Thomas Edison & Nikola Tesla Feud – Biography.com
  https://www.biography.com/inventors/thomas-edison-nikola-tesla-feud

• Edison Papers Project – Rutgers University
  https://edison.rutgers.edu/