Tesla was Edison's assistant. Is he not famous because Edison suppressed him?

Tesla's life is full of legends. He is a famous inventor and is called "the father of alternating current". At the same time, he is also proficient in seven languages He and Mark Twain were close friends in middle age. He made Marconi's radio communication theory come true and created the world's first remote-controlled racing car. The unit of magnetic density named after him (1 Tesla = 10+00000 gauss) shows his contribution to magnetism. But such an awesome person is Edison's assistant. As long as the people behind him mention the king of invention, they will definitely think of Edison first, but even few people know about Tesla!

Of course, the media behind this also has a certain relationship. There were many American inventors at that time, but only Edison was the most dazzling star. At that time, Tesla was still a young man and only worked as an assistant for Edison, so it was normal for him to be forgotten by media reporters.

His obscurity was partly due to the ignorance of the news media at that time, but more due to Edison. Although Tesla worked with Edison when he was young, he was successful when he was young because of Edison's support. But Edison often criticized and laughed at many of Tesla's ideas as "unrealistic", and secretly stole Tesla's patents, thus gradually achieving his own business empire.

In any case, we still have to understand that although Edison tried his best to deal with Tesla, in fact, a large part of Tesla's early development benefited from Edison's funding. From this perspective, Tesla is also kind to Edison, so no matter how Edison bullied him, Tesla just smiled. After all, fame and fortune are not important to him, and his greatest pursuit in life is to benefit all mankind.