Tesla vs Edison: The War of the Currents | Sleepy History with Rain Sounds

Sleepless History: Sleep Documentaries · Oct 22, 2026 · 1h 6m

The War of the Currents was never really Edison versus Tesla. Here’s what actually happened — told slowly, over steady rain, to help you drift off.

They worked in the same building for about six months in 1884, and that was the whole of it. The electrical war everyone remembers was fought between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, and by the time it started in earnest, Nikola Tesla had already sold his patents and walked away. The ending isn’t what the story says either: the man who lost control of his life’s work to financiers wasn’t only Tesla. It was Edison too. By 1892 his own name…