yeah and Edison ripped off tesla, the silicon junction changed the world
Edison told Tesla he’d pay him a million if he could fix one of the dynamos in NYC (Tesla was fresh off the boat, if memory serves, and brimming with the AC ideas that revolutionized electrical generation/distribution and integration into all our lives), as a joke, and Tesla went over and fixed it, then got pissed when he couldn’t get paid. He then took his brains to Westinghouse, who wound up losing financial control of his own company, and Tesla willingly tore up his own contract, leaving the company’s new masters free as birds. [Margaret Cheney, “Tesla Man out of Time”, if memory serves]