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- RogerStrong, on 03/19/2008, -0/+2But how many were his own inventions? The guy was the original pirate, stealing other people's intellectual property and claiming them as his own.
He patented the telephone in Britain as his own invention. (I believe Al Bell sued him and won.)
His original light bulb was a carbon copy of Joseph Swan's - a bulb earlier patented in Britain, displayed at least ten years before Edison's patent, and published in Scientific American (which Edison subscribed to) not long before his patent.
Nicholas Tesla fans accuse Edison of stealing inventions from Tesla.
He did the same with movies. "The Trip to the Moon" was the first ever sci-fi movie, produced in 1902 France by Georges Méliès, based on a Jules Verne story. Thomas Edison secretly made copies of it and exhibited it himself, with Edison pocketing all the money and Méliès going bankrupt.
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