Talk:Warehouse 13/@comment-5782071-20170328141404/@comment-5782071-20170329003030

From the canon wiki (I wrote this, hehehe):

"As revealed in a bonus chapter and explained to the others by Artie en route to the Lehmann Fornax, the Regents of the original Warehouse 13 asked the era's three most creative men to design it: Thomas Alva Edison (the businessman), Nikola Tesla (the mad scientist), and M.C. Escher (the artist), but they never asked how well these men would work together. Tesla and Edison, the wounds of Tesla's recent win over Edison in the Battle of the Currents still open, could not cooperate. Edison wished to harness the artifacts and their power for the advantage of the Warehouse as the inventory of Warehouse 13 would arrive and the Regents wanted results quickly, and Tesla believed they were too uncontrollable and beyond their understanding, and believed the Warehouse needed a solid technological foundation. The only thing the two inventors could agree on was their mutual contempt for the eccentric Escher, who designed the Warehouse (and possibly the Escher Vault) with the ability to grow, as well as the Warehouse's ability to fold in on itself and even spin; after weeks without progress, Tesla and Edison also began to work independently, with Edison designing the power sources (at least Cervante's Windmill), and Tesla using two giant Tesla Coils. When the trio presented their final design, the diorama, the Regents of the time were skeptical, and the diorama malfunctioned and failed during the presentation. Because of their creative differences and inability to work as a team, the designers of the original Warehouse 13 not only doomed their creation to epic failure, they also turned their diorama into an artifact."