I bet that rich dumb ass would love this comparison.

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    Biography not autobiography, big difference.

    Yours isn’t either.

    You didn’t provide a source, it’s not hard to figure out.

    They’re at the bottom boss.

    It does check again, I linked it directly it just didn’t preserve the highlight.

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      What do you mean “not autobiography”? He literally wrote it.

      It is.

      My “Wha?” was meant to express that I have no idea what you’re talking about, as that sentence was absolutely unintelligible to me.

      Your link doesn’t work for me, but it seems like you’re linking to the very quote I gave, just in the original magazine, not in the book. Why? You’re only proving me right in that Tesla never said it was Edison.

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        He literally didn’t. Read the author section, it was ghost written.

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        My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla is a book compiled and edited by Ben Johnston detailing the work of Nikola Tesla. The content was largely drawn from a series of articles that Nikola Tesla had written for Electrical Experimenter magazine in 1919, when he was 63 years old. Tesla’s personal account is divided into six chapters covering different periods of his life.

        Notably been Johnston wasn’t born until 1927 and Tesla died in 1946 when the author was 16, they never even met.

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          “Compiled and edited” doesn’t mean written. He just took Tesla’s articles and put them in a book. The words are still Tesla’s. Like, what the hell are you on? You literally linked me one of those articles, and it’s in the literal description you just quoted, so you must know that.

          I also don’t think you know what “ghost writing” means.

          But most importantly you’re just arguing semantics at this point. Instead of addressing any of the actual points, you choose to argue whether Tesla’s words put into a book count as autobiography. It doesn’t matter. They’re Tesla’s words, and you know it because you literally linked to the place where he wrote them. The only reason you’d do this is if you could see you’re wrong, but were too stubborn and proud to admit it, so you try to derail the discussion by changing the subject. I will not allow that. If you still want to have this discussion, bring some actual points that are relevant, if not, that’s fine by me, but I will not wrestle you in mud.