Edison had a very good friend named John Pierpont Morgan. As a local financial tycoon, Morgan was also very curious and interested in inventions and creations, so he basically helped Edison with his inventions. He united two other financially powerful consortiums to jointly support Edison's inventions. Created and founded a new company, the Edison General Electric Company, and the new company held the patent rights.
Edison was a famous American inventor. He was good at thinking and working hard all his life. When he was 75 years old, he still clocked in to the laboratory on time every day. During the decades of his life, he worked for more than ten hours almost every day and read for four to five hours in the study every night.
So based on the life time of an ordinary person, Edison has nearly doubled his time. On my 79th birthday, Edison proudly told the world that I am nearly 135 years old. Edison There were nearly 2,000 inventions in his life, among which his greatest invention contribution was the invention of the phonograph and the telegraph, and experimental improvements. Incandescent light bulbs and telephones. However, Edison, who invented so many works, did not win the Nobel Prize because both Edison and Tesla made outstanding contributions to electricity and both won the Nobel Prize in Physics. However, these two people looked down upon each other. The other party refused to share this honor, so they both refused to accept the award. Therefore, Edison was only nominated for two awards in his life, one was the Nobel Prize in Physics and the other was the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Tesla used to be Edison's working partner, but Tesla looked down upon Edison's invention ideas and believed that Edison's methods were very stupid and made his work inefficient. So Tesla looked down on working with Edison.
In fact, in addition to being a great jurist, Edison was also a very economically savvy businessman. He had nearly 1,500 patents for so many inventions in his life, all of which were invented by his team. The team invented them. After he got it, he applied for a patent, so that he would have a steady stream of money. So Edison is still very smart.
When Edison invented the first small projector, he obtained the right to invent the movie projector, so Edison had many patents in film shooting. It was a sharp blade in the hands of Edison, and those who studied movies were subject to Edison, so everyone went to Southern California to fight against Edison's behavior, thus creating the current Hollywood. This can be regarded as an interesting anecdote from Edison's life.
So a smart person is not only an inventor, but also a capitalist.