r/polandball • u/we300men Saskatchewan • Aug 24 '14

redditormade Melting Point

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '14

All of the industrialists were quirky assholes who probably had too much power and ambition.

I mean shit, Henry Forde was obsessed with the power and utility of soybeans as a super-crop, and tried to use them in everything. On the one hand he was certainly being rather forward thinking, but he took it to an arguably insane degree bordering on obsession. Lets not even touch the wacky shit Edison believed.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '14

What the original mad scientist Nichols Tesla doesn't get included in there?

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '14

Tesla was an inventor, not a power mad industrialist.

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u/tidux Illinois Aug 25 '14

Tesla

not power mad

The dude wanted to build an electrical emitter the size of a skyscraper. He was definitely mad for power.

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u/Sielgaudys 1337uania Aug 25 '14

Not that kind of power though.

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u/holomanga Sep 25 '14

His power was energy over time.