Thomas Edison
From Stripespedia
Surely, everyone knows who Thomas Edison is. He and his rivalry with Nikola Tesla over alternating current and direct current (the "War of Currents") are subtly referenced in the lyrics to "Astro".
Also, in an interview over the film Coffee and Cigarettes:
- Jack White: "I knew what [a Tesla coil] was, since I wanted to build one since I was a little kid. When we first met Jim, he had a book about Tesla on his desk, and I started saying how much of an admirer of Tesla's I was. We started talking, and we were eventually going to make a video for our last album in which I was going to play Tesla. We were going to reenact Edison's electrocution of an elephant that he did to disprove Tesla's theory, and I was going to turn Edison's head into an incandescent light pulp at the end to pay him back for his murder of the elephant. It didn't work out because it got too expensive. The next thing, Jim came over and said he had a script for a short film about a Tesla coil. I was so excited about it, because we wanted to do something creative with Jim, and also, to bring people some more knowledge of someone who is really underrated and misunderstood."
