When you think of Edison, what comes to mind first? The man who invented the electric light, the genius scientist, these stories that we have known since childhood, now the historical truth reveals its little-known side...
The king of hypocrisy inventions
In fact, long before Edison announced the invention of the electric light in 1879, two engineers had already invented it: Henry Edison in 1854. Goebbels and Joseph in 1860. Wilson. Swann, but these two benevolent brothers did not apply for a patent in time because of their weak sense of patents, which allowed Edison to drill the loophole.
After several years of litigation, Swann voluntarily sold the patent to Edison, and after Goebbels's death, Edison swindled the patent from Goebbels's widow, so in fact Edison was only a patented light bulb improver, not a real inventor.
A veritable profiteer
During his lifetime, Edison had more than 2,000 inventions and more than 1,500 patents, but most of them were developed by his team members, and Edison only provided them with funds and laboratories, and registered the results in his own name to obtain fame and fortune.
Strictly speaking, instead of calling Edison a scientist, it is better to say that he is a shrewd businessman, and his most important contribution is the promotion and application of electric lamps, but Edison's behavior of constantly suppressing and persecuting competitors for the sake of profit is disgraceful, and he has been crowned as a profiteer by posterity.
Persecution of the genius of the century Tesla
The father of alternating current - Nikolai. Tesla, known as the man closest to God, is now radio, remote control..... These are Tesla's contributions, and some people say that if it were not for Edison's persecution, all tesla's inventions and technologies would have enabled human technology to surpass the current 500 years.
The feud between Edison and Tesla begins in 1880, when Edison invented direct current, two years later, Tesla invented alternating current, Tesla, who was still an employee of Edison at the time, proposed to Edison that alternating current is the future of mankind, but Edison because he has paid a huge investment in direct current, so he did not hesitate to reject Tesla's proposal.
But the most critical reason is that Edison once gave Tesla a task to improve motor and engine performance, and promised to pay $50,000 if Tesla succeeded in improving. Tesla finally did it after some effort, but after Taking the opportunity to take tesla's 24 invention patents, Edison actually said that $50,000 was just a joke.
So Tesla resigned in anger, and Edison suppressed Tesla everywhere and denigrated the character of others. This left Tesla unable to find a job for a long time, and in the end, he had to earn a living from manual labor in order to make ends meet. Ironically, the job turned out to be digging cable trenches for Edison's company!
So again, the truth you know must be the truth?
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