General Electric was founded by Thomas Edison and JP Morgan in 1892. They were on the frontlines war of DC vs AC. Tesla's AC ended up winning though. Shame such an iconic American company sold out to China.
>Did Thomas Edison Steal Inventions?
Don't think so. He hired a lot of geniuses that built things for him. Does that count as stealing? Tesla actually worked for him but Tesla was upset Edison was so focused on DC because it was so inefficient. Tesla sold a lot of patents to Edison because he was naive on how laws work and he couldn't make royalties off them. But he had a lot of other things he made money on later like his AC machine which he partnered with Westinghouse. AC ended up winning because it traveled much further and was thus cheaper.
Edison, Tesla, or Westinghouse?
They all kinda worked together actually. Wasn't that much animosity amongst each other. Was good competition. Edison made huge advancements on the light bulbs, Tesla made good machines, Westinghouse was a good investor. They were all geniuses using each others stuff and pioneered the grid.
I don't see why not. Was a smaller world back then. Well yeah, you had to know your laws because they were actually enforced back then. Edison paved the way for light bulbs and everyone stole it from him later on anyways. Getting the right filament to burn for more than a few minutes was hard to figure out.
Everyone is kinda weaseling their way around patents. Like Tesla and Westinghouse changed the screw bulb into like a plug in socket thing which avoided them having to pay royalties.
This is a perfect example of skirting around laws. Most people don't know that the requirement to label animal products as 'grass-fed organic' only requires that the animals eat grass for 3-6 months before they're slaughtered. So all the years before that could be corn-fed steroids up the ass'd meat and milk. Still better an upgrade but it's misleading what you think it means.