PatrickNeville wrote:
I dislike edison.
From what i have heard he tried to steal everybodies work, including Tesla's and he even electrocuted an Eliphant just to discredit d/c which rivalled his d/c electricity. (maybe that was the other way round)
Say i could go back in time, i would give Thomas Edison a big slap in the face, travel back and see how things have turned out.,
Can't stand the bloke, I bet Joe Swan would like to give him a slap too.
From Wikipedia
-In America, Edison had been working on copies of the original light bulb patented by Swan, trying to make them more efficient. Though Swan had beaten him to this goal, Edison obtained patents in America for a fairly direct copy of the Swan light, and started an advertising campaign which claimed that he was the real inventor. Swan, who was less interested in making money from the invention, agreed that Edison could sell the lights in America while he retained the rights in Britain.
While searching for a better filament for his light bulb, Swan inadvertently made another advance. In 1881, Swan developed and patented a process for squeezing nitro-cellulose through holes to form conducting fibres. His newly established Swan Electric Lamp Company (which by merger was to become the Edison and Swan United Company) used the cellulose filaments, that Swan had invented, in their bulbs. The textile industry has also used this process.