Edison gets a lot of flack for some things he did (especially in the context of Tesla) but he certainly was a great inventor. Many of his inventions did come fr

Edison gets a lot of flack for some things he did (especially in the context of Tesla) but he certainly was a great inventor. Many of his inventions did come from working with the people he employed, but they were nowhere near "enslaved". No more than employees at Google or Facebook are. Furthermore, a lot of the accusations levied against him are just outright false. For instance, the "electrocution of an elephant": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_%28elephant%29 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_%28elephant%29 Edit - more about Edison: http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2013/02/oatmeal_comic_about_tesla_and.html http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2013/02/oatmeal_comic_...