Did Thomas Edison ROB Nikola Tesla?!

Many believe that Thomas Edison stole Nikola Tesla's ideas... or the other way around. We're here to set the record straight.

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Two brilliant inventors. Two bitter rivals. Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla were two of the 19th century's most influential scientists and businessmen, revolutionizing many key industries at the time, but most notably electricity. Their fierce battle over whose electric current was superior, also known as the war of the currents, made both of them hate the other.

In our modern world, Tesla is widely regarded as the hero of this story, no doubt in part due to the popularity of the electric vehicle that shares his name. Tesla’s idealistic approach to science and the mystery surrounding his character has caused many to deify him.

Edison, on the other hand, is infamous. He’s best known not as a scientist but as a businessman, and a ruthless one at that. He’s known for stealing ideas, beating down his competition, and stabbing his colleagues in the back.

Most people have a vague notion of Tesla and Edison’s rivalry, but the details are… a little fuzzy. Most people think that Edison stole Tesla’s ideas….

And those people are wrong.

Don’t get me wrong, Edison stole plenty of ideas in his day, but not Tesla’s. Not that we know of. In fact Edison found Tesla’s ideas to be too impractical. Many stories would have you believe that Edison and Tesla knew each other quite well, but that would also be false.

This video intends to set the record straight.
Edison’s Beginnings
When Tesla was just starting his career, Edison was already very accomplished. Edison was an inventor, but he didn’t think up truly revolutionary ideas. Instead, he tended to make improvements on existing technologies. His first success was the quadruplex telegraph, which he sold for $10,000. This would be worth around $230,000 today. He used that money to start Menlo Park, which was his first laboratory specifically intended for scientific innovation. He employed numerous scientists and inventors in his lab, and because of this, he got a lot of the credit for the inventions that were produced there.

Edison received national fame for one specific invention, the phonograph, which unlike many of his other inventions, was entirely original. Many attribute the invention to Alexander Graham Bell, but in reality, Bell simply improved upon Edison’s methods. This might be the first ever recording of Mary Had a Little Lamb, recorded by Edison himself on his original invention:

[play recording from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Edison_Mary_had_lamb.ogg]

In the late 1870’s Edison’s lab got started working on problems of electricity. Another huge misconception is that Edison invented the light bulb. This is not true. A working bulb was invented all the way back in 1840 by a British scientist named Warren de la Rue. The problem with de la Rue’s invention was that it used platinum, which was an expensive material. As such, his light bulb was impractical. Various other inventors improved upon the light bulb design, but they all had key flaws that prevented them from being commercially viable.

This all changed when Edison got his hands on the problem. He and his team filed a patent in 1879 for a new way of making the filament inside the bulb, which resulted in the bulb lasting over 1200 hours. Since it also used cheaper materials, this was a massive improvement and actually made electric lighting viable.

As he was getting more and more involved in the problems of electricity, there came a very profound problem that needed to be solved: how to deliver electricity to all the places that needed it. This was the start of the War of the Currents, as Edison invented Direct Current, otherwise known as DC power, which he started to serve to customers in Manhattan and London.

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