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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Nikola Tesla worked for Edison making the Edison Direct currrent machine workable because Edison and his scientists could not make it work properly. Edison was not good to his word and negleted the promise money he offered. Nikola parted his way and now we have his inventions.
Tesla and Edison went to history as inventors yet both had a different perseption in their work. Today's electricity is based in the invention of Nikola Tesla because alternate current is better than direct current. Edison got the patent on direct current engine wchich he could not make it work properly. Tesla fixed that when he was working for him. That is the last thing he did for him.
Some of his friends were Mark Twain,Robert Underwood Johnson,Katharine Underwood Johnson,and George Westinghouse.
Nikola Tesla
Long enough to see what kind of person he was. -0- "If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor." -Nikola Tesla-