Late in life, Edison was asked what his most important invention was, and without hesitation, he replied, "The research laboratory!" He was famous for claiming credit for his employee's creations. Probably his biggest blunder was cheating Tesla, who then went to work for George Westinghouse, his biggest competitor 😊
@@ernesthill4017 Which would later escalate the chain of wacky events known as the "Currents War", culminating in JP Morgan forcing Edison out of his own company
@@ernesthill4017he was a businessman first inventor second so yeah he hired people to work under his business and as an employee of a business any success that you have goes to the same success of the business owner Was he a "dick" maybe, he did have a very high opinion of himself? Most definitely. Was he still a genius and absolute success? Without a doubt
@@davidhong1934 Oddly enough though Edison would have the last laugh as the winner of the current wars nearly a century later in a very unexpected way and by completely unforeseen circumstances from both him and Tesla With the advent of the Computer and the idea of creating the fundamental code for all computer inputs become based in Binary This means that to run a computer you need stable current that doesn't fluctuate and produces a distinctive result of "OFF and ON" Meaning Direct Current which was Edison's process is perfectly suited for the field of computing, something that Tesla and his method of electric current can never do And now everyone in the world uses computer based technology to monitor the process of producing electricity before its transmitted long-distance by Tesla's method of Alternating Current
