Bishop Neophytos of Morphou claimed on Thursday that Nikola Tesla, not Thomas Edison, “invented electricity”, while using a sermon to make a series of disputed assertions about his scientific achievements.
Speaking during a liturgy at the Prophet Elias chapel in Evrychou, Neophytos described Tesla as “the greatest inventor of the 20th century” and attributed the invention of electricity to him rather than American inventor Thomas Edison.
“The greatest inventor of
