Debating about Edison, Tesla, & Westinghouse - Activité

Join your team: you will either be pro-Edison, pro-Tesla, or pro-Westinghouse.

Have a look at the quotation pronounced by your inventor and defend his point of view. To do so, you comment on the quotation, refer to the previous documents we studied... and be imaginative!

• "I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions." — Thomas Edison
  
• “Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.” — Nikola Tesla
  
• "The alternating current will kill people, of course. So will gunpowder, and dynamite, and whisky, and lots other things; but we have a system whereby the deadly electricity of the alternating current can do no harm unless a man is fool enough to swallow a whole dynamo." — George Westinghouse