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In the "War of Currents" era in the late 1880s, George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison became adversaries due to Edison's promotion of direct current (DC) for electric power distribution over alternating current (AC) advocated by Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla.

Edison had major flaws in his DC machine. Tesla made it work right. Edison has the pattent. In few words looking back in time, research shows that Edison had his inventors working for him getting him the patents.

Edison never had ideas like Tesla had.

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Thomas Edison was actually jealous of Nikolai Tesla because Tesla was smarter

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That was kind of very easy. Edison was no genius. His patents were the work of his employees. Tesla came with the AC system to generate electricity and there was no match.

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