Know why? He wanted to GIVE THEM AWAY FOR THE BETTERMENT OF MANKIND!!! Edison was a greedy bastard.Eclectic Dreck said:Stole is such a harsh word. I generally prefer to view it as he took a brilliant idea and used it to create a product that could be sold. For all his brilliance, Tesla couldn't ever figure out how to sell his ideas.Simriel said:Wireless electricity? The man could do things with technology we are only catching up to now. Know why we didn't get it? Thomas Edison. Stole Teslas Electricity and the Movie Camera from someone else.Mcupobob said:I perfer Leonardo Da Vinica, but I looked up Telsa and well it seems he didn't invent much but his ideas seemed to help with are current technology, I wouldn't say he is as more under appreciated as any other great inventor.