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Originally Posted by Aitor Eneko
On the other hand, Edison and others were interested on patenting ideas and earning as much money as they could. Always tried to discredit Tesla work.
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My understanding, from what I have read, disagrees with this, Nikola had over 600 patents, many of which were commercialized, especially those for AC machinery. He wasn't very well off financially, essentially because he was stiffed by the large companies like GE, who used his ideas and paid him a very small % that he agreed to.
Edison by comparison, was a "cut & try" inventor and realized many ideas after weeks and years of experimentation, but was probably a better businessman than Tesla and negotiated better deals or took control or owned the companies which commercialized his inventions.
Tesla remarked something to the effect, that in Edison's case, an ounce of theory would have saved him a pound of hard work. Tesla was much bigger on electrical theory than Edison and clearly was an electrical genius.