WHAT YOU’VE HEARD
Nikola Tesla created the Niagara Falls Generator
actually… the forgotten geek was Benjamin Lamme, the quiet mechanical genius and Chief Engineer at Westinghouse who actually turned Tesla’s theoretical papers into working hardware that wouldn't explode.
// who’s asking
I'm Tom Peracchio, longtime tech pro, storyteller, and professional cynic. I make videos and write commentary about the messy, hilarious, and occasionally brilliant history of technology.
I spent years doing IT support and Novell sysadmin work, the kind of job where you learn that the official story and the actual story are rarely the same document. These days I dig through the history of computing to find where the popular version of events splits off from what the primary sources actually say, and why the wrong version usually wins anyway. No hot takes, just paper trails.
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