Edison Vs Tesla Quotes

Tesla was, at first, unconcerned with his competitor’s progress and remarked, "Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents." Later, however, Tesla would sue Marconi for stealing his ideas. In 1943, the Supreme Court would overturn Marconi’s patent in recognition that Tesla was the original inventor of radio transmission.

Edison himself once said, “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this—you haven’t.” Often criticized for being a re-inventor: someone who rode on the coattails of others, Edison had his own peculiar talent for seeing flaws and working obsessively to improve and refine concepts and designs to make them functional and to develop streamlined and inexpensive means of manufacture for the inventions that were most in demand.

Tesla had filed a patent in 1901 for an “Apparatus for the Utilization of Radiant Energy” (Patent #685,957) – essentially, a solar panel.