[MisterTea]

> Come on, a charlatan who invented the electrical system we are still using today?

Did he? http://edisontechcenter.org/AC-PowerHistory.html

I still stand by my opinion and believe his patents and inventions were based on the ideas of others and his celebrity status afforded him this. I also suspect that the USA at the time was more than happy to side with American inventors in patent disputes.

[Sporktacular]

And there he is, right there in your reference (great reference for an unbiased point of view by the way) as an inventor of the AC system.

All inventions are somehow based on the ideas of others, but you still contend that his studying two engineering disciplines, developing several technologies and fighting the current wars were all part of the long grift of a conman? Seems like the long, risky route to the $$$ no?

(Yes, before I said THE inventor - you got me.)