But who is?

What I Finally Understood – Library of Rickandria

We have seen in our digging that the bios of all famous people have been poorly invented by . . . who knows.

Phoenician Navy scribes toiling away in dark dungeons somewhere far away from normal people, so they don't know how to lie convincingly.

Where did ALL the Phoenicians Go? – Library of Rickandria

History has only held together this long because normal people don't know any of these things.

A Study of History by Miles Mathis – Library of Rickandria

They weren't taught it in school and don't have time or inclination to read Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica, or other mainstream sources with a fine-tooth comb like I do.

So, they accept the soundbite Dick-and-Jane history we are brought up on in this perpetual kindergarten we call an education as easier than giving a damn.

The only reason anyone now knows anything about Edison, or any other historical figure is to parrot it in a pub quiz or at Sporcle.

The idea of questioning any of it for basic sense apparently never occurred to anyone before I arrived.

That said, a quick search on this question shows I am not the first to get here, at least on the question of Edison's patent claims.

Google, Bing and the rest admit that Edison's reputation “has taken a beating” in the past 40 years or so.

Tesla's rising popularity is mostly to credit for that, and I personally remember discovering this question in a 1980 film about Tesla narrated by Orson Welles and directed by the Yugoslavian director Kristo Papic.

The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla (1980) - IMDb

I don't think it ever made it to theaters, and I saw it on cable TV sometime in the early 90s, I believe, before I killed my television.

That got the ball rolling, and with the rise of the internet many others took it up, making this paper a bit easier to swallow for normies than most of those I post.

For that reason, many with excessive curiosity may already know that Edison bought or stole patents, didn't invent many of the things they say he did, and ran down-and dirty campaigns against his competitors.

the usual Phoenician success story.

Star Salaries are Fake – Library of Rickandria

What no one else has done, it appears, is destroy his Horatio Alger, rags-to-riches early bio, which is mainly why I am here today.

Horatio Alger Jr. (/ˈældʒər/; January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to middle-class security and comfort through good works. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States from 1868 through to his death in 1899.

I read his Wikipedia page expecting it to be the usual paper-thin sob story of a poor Protestant minister's son delivering papers and collecting bottles to put himself through grade school and vacation Bible school until he is suddenly and miraculously discovered by a rich philanthropist and set up in his own expensive laboratory, becoming a millionaire overnight.

And guess what, that is pretty much it, skootching a few things here and there.

But Edison's bio is even more paper-thin than usual, not even being single-ply toilet tissue.

There's absolutely nothing there until his first patent at age 22, and that literally comes out of nowhere.

Follow along with me at Wiki if you like.

That photo above is our first clue, since it is fake.

Why would they lead his bio with a fake photo?

You are about to find out.

But you can guess just from the form.

He's dressed like a happy street urchin, isn't he, with a newsboy hat and a hand-knit scarf (from his blind mother, I guess), and a carnation in his buttonhole.

He just needs some ratty fingerless gloves to complete the ensemble.

each of those accoutrements is pasted in, and then the whole thing is pasted into a fake background.

They did this, obviously, to make him look poor.

But he wasn't poor.

His entire early bio, such as it is, is fake.

They even lie about his name, telling it was originally Edeson.

No, it was originally Edson/Edsen, rich East Coast Jews who came from Salem.

The Salem Witch Trials WERE FAKED – Library of Rickandria

We saw them in my paper on Folk music, since Pete Seeger's mother was one of these Edsons.

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, and had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene," which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes.

THE FOLK SCENE was Totally Manufactured – Library of Rickandria

To scrub that, all the genealogies have to end Edison's line after a couple of generations, but Tim Dowling admits he is a cousin of Edison at Geneanet.

Family tree of Thomas EDISON - Geneastar

Dowling is proud to be a first cousin of the Stuart kings.

This name fudging is very common, and we have seen them do it many times, perhaps most memorably with Ben Franklin, where they tell us he was a Frankline, but he was actually a Frankland.

Benjamin Franklin: Premier American British Spook – Library of Rickandria

The Franklines quickly die out, but the Franklands take us back to British noble families—coincidentally the same noble families Franklin was known to be living with in his decades in England.

his middle name Alva and his father's middle name Ogden.

Like the Edsons, the Alvas also link us to the Stuarts.

See Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, 1st Baronet, whose father was an Earl and whose mother was Lady Mary Stuart, daughter of the Duke of Lennox.

So, you can see we are right at the top already.

These people were also Erskines and Stirlings, linking us forward to tennis creep Andy Murray.

Sir Andrew Barron Murray OBE (born 15 May 1987) is a British former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 in 2016. Murray won three Grand Slam singles titles, two at Wimbledon (in 2013 and 2016), and one at the US Open (in 2012), and reached eleven major finals. Murray was ranked in the top 10 for all but one month from July 2008 through to October 2017, and was in the top 4 in eight of the nine year-end rankings during that time. Murray won 46 ATP Tour singles titles, including 14 Masters 1000 events and two gold medals at the Summer Olympics.

How do I know these are the right Alvas?

William Kissam Vanderbilt I (December 12, 1849 – July 22, 1920[1]) was an American heir, businessman, philanthropist and horsebreeder. Born into the Vanderbilt family, he managed his family's railroad investments.

Because they also link us forward to Alva Erskine Smith, who married William Vanderbilt in 1875.

Alva Erskine Belmont (née Smith; January 17, 1853 – January 26, 1933), known as Alva Vanderbilt from 1875 to 1896, was an American multi-millionaire socialite and women's suffrage activist. She was noted for her energy, intelligence, strong opinions, and willingness to challenge convention.

She looks like a real sweetheart, right?

How old is she there?

Let me guess, 35?

Who do you think was bankrolling Edison from the very beginning?

The Vanderbilts.

The mainstream admits it, and we find it at Wikipedia.

Alva was born six years after Edison.

Her father was Murray Forbes Smith, a rich merchant.

And yes, these were the Forbes of Dumfries, Virginia.

I'm guessing these Smiths are the bankers of Nottingham.

Anyone want that bet?

Alva's sister married the billionaire banker and Cuban sugar magnate Fernando Yznaga, whose sister had just married George Montagu, the Duke of Manchester.

George Victor Drogo "Kim" Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester (17 June 1853 – 18 August 1892), styled Lord Kimbolton from 1853 to 1855 and Viscount Mandeville from 1855 to 1890, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.

George Washington was a Montagu, remember.

Who WAS George Washington? – Library of Rickandria

Alva's daughter Consuelo married Charles Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, first cousin of Winston.

So, that's where the name Alva is pointing.

The name Ogden is pointing in the same direction, since they were a fabulously influential family at that time, being the governors of Jew Nersey and mayor of Chicago.

History of the Jews in Jersey - Wikipedia

These Ogdens are also listed in the peerage, being related to the Hammonds.

In 1821 Sarah Ogden of this New York family married Louis Philippe de Luze of Switzerland, whose mother was a von Bethmann of German nobility in Frankfurt.

Louis Philippe de Luze (1793 - 1877) - Genealogy (geni.com)

See Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, who became Chancellor of the German Empire in 1909.

Theobald Theodor Friedrich Alfred von Bethmann Hollweg (29 November 1856 – 1 January 1921) was a German politician who was chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917. He oversaw the German entry into World War I and played a key role during its first three years. He was replaced as chancellor in July 1917 due in large part to opposition to his policies by leaders in the military.

Another cousin of Edison.

The von Bethmanns were big bankers, known as the financiers of the Prussian state.

They were also the private bankers of the Pope, the Tsar of Russia, and Goethe.

Oskar Schindler was Jewish & so was Goethe – Library of Rickandria

So, as you are seeing, it wasn't just the Vanderbilts behind the Edison project, it was the entire Phoenician Navy.

Phoenicians: ANCIENT SPOOKS – Library of Rickandria

As for de Luze, he was Swiss consul to the US in 1842, of the de Luze knights founded by Frederick the Great of Prussia.

Frederick II (German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include his military successes in the Silesian wars, his reorganisation of the Prussian Army, the First Partition of Poland, and his patronage of the arts and the Enlightenment. Prussia greatly increased its territories and became a major military power in Europe under his rule. He became known as Frederick the Great (German: Friedrich der Große) and was nicknamed "Old Fritz" (German: der Alte Fritz).

They were also bankers and Jews, since—as you will remember—Luz means almond tree in Hebrew.

Although they tell us Edison was out of school and selling veggies on the street by age 12, there is no chance that is true, since he was a close cousin of the Vanderbilts.

At age 15 he was allegedly given a job as a telegraph operator by a MacKenzie.

Another cousin, no doubt, but since Edison had left school at 12, he wasn't really qualified to operate a telegraph, which required full literacy.

Whoa!

They don't tell us the year, but we assume he was about 17 here.

So, we are supposed to believe this poor boy with no education obtained exclusive rights to selling newspapers “on the road” (which road?) and printed his own newspaper with four assistants?

Who bankrolled that?

We aren't told.

This story reminds us of Mark Twain' ridiculous early bio, and it may have been written by the same fast talker.

What About Mark Twain? – Library of Rickandria

We know that Horatio Alger actually did write many of these bios of famous people when he wasn't writing boys' novels, so he may be to blame for this mess.

That paper must have folded pretty fast, because at age 19 Edison was in Kentucky working the AP newswire for Western Union.

We are supposed to believe he requested the night shift so that he could do his experiments during the day.

Yeah.

Because that's believable.

I remind you that the Vanderbilts owned Western Union, so Edison was working for his cousins from his teens.

Suddenly, his life changed direction completely.

He was fired at age 20 for spilling acid on a gerbil or something, and we skip ahead two years to his first patent.

I guess he lived for two years on green stamp books his invalid mother had been saving for him.

No one wanted his electric vote recorder, so he moved to New York City.

You know, to save money.

Franklin Pope, seven years older, was there waiting for him.

Franklin Leonard Pope (2 December 1840 – 13 October 1895) was an American engineer, explorer, and inventor.

That's so convenient, right?

Also, convenient that Franklin Pope had two big peerage names, one of which we have already seen in this paper, but that doesn't mean anything.

Pope, at age 29, had already worked on the Russian-American Telegraph system and also with Wall Street, and for some reason not given he decided to form the company Pope Edison with this poor 22-year-old telegraph operator Edison who had done nothing but invent something no one wanted.

Edison was supposedly living in Pope's basement in New Jersey, since he couldn't afford a flat.

So why didn't Pope hire him as an assistant?

Why make him a partner?

This company didn't last long, but it indicates Edison had money and that the story we are told is false.

At the same time Edison was hanging with his rich cousin Pope, he was also working with Samuel Laws, head of the NY Gold Exchange.

Samuel Spahr Laws (March 23, 1824 – January 9, 1921) was an American minister, professor, physician, college president, businessman and inventor best known today as the inventor of the Laws Gold Indicator, a predecessor of the ticker tape machine. He was an 1848 graduate and class valedictorian of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a member of the Alpha chapter of Beta Theta Pi, founded nine years before his graduation in 1839.

You know what that means.

We are supposed to believe he just waltzed into New York unannounced, and Laws hired him to work at the Gold Indicator Company.

somehow invented an early ticker tape machine, though the details are all extremely misty.

They now tell us Laws invented the thing, so I don't know why Edison and Pope needed to be pulled into this fiction, but there it is.

I suppose to give Edison's early fake bio some ballast.

Next, we skip ahead another seven years, to 1876, when Edison was 29.

Suddenly he has his own industrial research lab, the famous Menlo Park.

Yep, he already had that before age 30, based on one invention, the duplex telegraph.

We are told he invented the quadruplex telegraph, allowing two messages in each direction, but he didn't.

Stearns invented the two-direction telegraph and Edison just added the duplex in each direction.

Or did he?

We now know he bought out Stearns for half the quad, so possibly he bought out someone else for the other half.

Regardless, he sold the quadruplex to Jay Gould, which is curious in that Gould was the main competitor of the Vanderbilts.

Jason Gould (/ɡuːld/; May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was an American railroad magnate and financial speculator who founded the Gould business dynasty. He is generally identified as one of the robber barons of the Gilded Age. His sharp and often unscrupulous business practices made him one of the wealthiest men of the late nineteenth century. Gould was an unpopular figure during his life and remains controversial.

Since Edison was a Vanderbilt cousin financed by them, why would he sell to Gould?

Hard to say, but the Vanderbilts got the thing anyway, buying it from Gould.

So, probably another fake story to hide some shenanigans— probably the rape of investors somehow.

It looks to me like a way to drive the price up, like we have seen with art.

The Vanderbilts had to pay five million for something they could have got for half a million, and then they pass the mark-up on to cities installing the new tech.

And they probably didn't pay anything for it, since Edison was just their man from the start.

He was little more than a front.

That's how it looks to me. . . and I just got here.

You know what tends to confirm that already?

Stearns.

You have to ask,

He had the patent and the product, so why work through this middleman Edison?

It makes no sense to sell to Edison, who then sells to Gould, who then sells to the Vanderbilts.

It's obviously some sort of scam, manufactured to drive the price way up.

After his demonstration of the telegraph, Edison was not sure that his original plan to sell it for $4,000 to $5,000 was right, so he asked Western Union to make a bid.

He was surprised to hear them offer $10,000 ($258,647 in 2022), which he gratefully accepted.[32]

That is footnoted 2013 to Vernon Trollinger at Bounce Energy.

But if we click on the link to “quadruplex telegraph”, we go to Wiki's page on that, where it says Edison sold to Jay Gould for $30,000 ($776,000 now).

Gould sold to Western Union for $5 million ($129 million now).

That's a huge continuity error in this lie, one the editors at Wiki should have caught in their sleep. 

But they are too busy censoring non-approved edits to check their fake mainstream stories for continuity.

Menlo Park became the first institution set up with the specific purpose of producing constant technological innovation and improvement.

Edison was legally credited with most of the inventions produced there, though many employees carried out research and development under his direction.

That is again very suspicious, making Edison look like just a front for some big consortium.

He was “legally credited.”

In the same way, I guess, that Lennon/McCartney were legally credited with writing most of the Beatles songs.

It now looks to me like Edison's name was on all this to keep the Vanderbilt's name off it.

And other even bigger fish.

As we saw recently with Oppenheimer, Edison was just the guy in a suit heading the public project.

He was there to get his picture taken.

Same with Musk and Gates and Zuckerberg and Bezos now, and just about everyone else you could think of.

What I Finally Understood – Library of Rickandria

All there to read from scripts and take fire from the press, so that other people could remain in the shadows.

Now let's look at some of Edison's most famous inventions, starting with the light bulb.

They admit Edison didn't really invent it, he just updated the filament a bit, and he may not even have done that.

We should have extensive lab notes and don't, so something is being hidden here.

The lamp was a small component in his system of electric lighting, and no more critical to its effective functioning than the Edison Jumbo generator, the Edison main and feeder, and the parallel-distribution system.

Other inventors with generators and incandescent lamps, and with comparable ingenuity and excellence, have long been forgotten because their creators did not preside over their introduction in a system of lighting.

That is according to Thomas Hughes.

Thomas Hughes QC (20 October 1822 – 22 March 1896) was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).  Hughes had numerous other interests, in particular as a Member of Parliament, in the British co-operative movement, and in a settlement—Rugby, Tennessee, USA—reflecting his values.

who really invented the light bulb?

They would prefer not to tell you that, leaving Edison as the inventor in all schoolrooms and game show questions.

But is the inventor of the light bulb justly forgotten in favor of Edison?

I don't think so.

Even if Edison did all this as Hughes is claiming, the original inventors are important, especially when we are talking about special genius or inventiveness.

The first to pass an electrical current through a filament for the purpose of lighting was Humphry Davy, and he did it almost 80 years before Edison.

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS, MRIA, FGS (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as for discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Davy also studied the forces involved in these separations, inventing the new field of electrochemistry. Davy is also credited with discovering clathrate hydrates.

Davy also invented the arc lamp at about the same time—which is nice to see him given credit for.

I assume this is because arc lamps aren't used anymore, and most people don't even know what they are.

So, he doesn't get in the way of Edison promotion.

Using his powerful batteries, Davy was the first to isolate sodium and potassium.

Hard as it is to believe, before Davy they didn't even know the difference between the two.

This was just over 200 years ago, so that tells you how young science really is.

and magnesium.

He also proved that chlorine contained no oxygen and was its own element.

If Davy hadn't been addicted to getting high on nitrous oxide, claiming he was doing experiments with it, he might have done much more for science.

As you will not be surprised to hear after seeing his portrait, Davy was very popular with the ladies, having a huge female audience at his science lectures—something very uncommon at the time.

This also did not encourage a nose to the grindstone mentality from him.

Davy was also an accomplished artist and poet, especially the latter, being praised by Coleridge.

He was careless in handling both gasses and acids, and died young of a stroke at age 50, passing on his notes and know-how to his student Faraday.

What about Edison's advance in the light bulb, using a carbon filament instead of platinum?

Joseph Swan beat him to it by almost two decades (1860) and patented it in England.

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS (31 October 1828 – 27 May 1914) was an English physicist, chemist, and inventor. He is known as an independent early developer of a successful incandescent light bulb and is the person responsible for developing and supplying the first incandescent lights used to illuminate homes and public buildings, including the Savoy Theatre, London, in 1881. In 1904, Swan was knighted by King Edward VII awarded the Royal Society's Hughes Medal and was made an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society. He had received the highest decoration in France, the Legion of Honour, when he visited the 1881 International Exposition of Electricity, Paris. The exhibition included displays of his inventions, and the city was lit with his electric lighting.

They claim Edison came up with the same basic design in 1878, but that is doubtful since Edison was forced to buy out Swan.

These people apparently think that buying out someone allows them to bury them historically, since they do it over and over.

Edison is now world famous, but no one has ever heard of Swan.

Swan is slightly more famous in the UK, or was back then, since he was knighted both in England and France.

Some photographers know about Swan, or used to, since he was famous for getting photography past glass plates.

He invented nitrocellulose plates and bromide paper, the latter of which is still used by top photographers in B&W photography.

I have used it when enlarging my own photos in the lab.

What about the phonograph?

We are told Edison invented it in late 1877, announcing it November 21.

So how strange is it that a French poet named Charles Cros just happened to have published the exact same mechanism on April 30 of that year at the French Academy of Sciences?

Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros (1 October 1842 – 9 August 1888) was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude. Cros was a well-regarded poet and humorous writer. As an inventor, he was interested in the fields of transmitting graphics by telegraph and making photographs in color, but he is perhaps best known for being the first person to conceive a method for reproducing recorded sound, an invention he named the Paleophone. Charles Cros died in Paris at the age of 45.

Although we are supposed to believe the Academy ignored it, not even opening a sealed envelope, an account of this invention was published in the French press in October of that year. 

The sealed envelope story is so preposterous we can be sure the Academy leaked the invention, which is how Edison's people (the Vanderbilts) heard of it, allowing them to scoop Cros.

Given that, it is amazing we know of Cros at all.

Cros was not a nobody, being of a prominent family.

He was a known poet, being in the same group as Mallarme and Verlaine.

Note the hand in the vest there, indicating Phoenicians.

He was expelled by the Chilean army in 1862 and deported back to France.

Cros' brother Antoine-Hippolyte later claimed this same throne but was also denied.

This brother married Leonilda Mendez de Texeira, a Portuguese noble, so we see these people didn't come out of nowhere.

Texeira is related to the Stewarts, Earls of Galloway, through the Dalyells.

We also link to the Erskines that way, who we already saw above.

So, we close that circle in a strange way, indicating Edison is related to these folks as well.

I don't know what this Patagonia stuff is about, but it looks like another diversion.

I may come back to it.

The point is, Cros was also a noble of some sort and they are hiding that.

produced a phonograph-like device in the 1880s that used wax-coated cardboard cylinders.

Hmmm.

Strange isn't it that despite being a “genius”, having the best lab in the country, the patents, many assistants, and the financing of the Vanderbilts, he wasn't able to do anything with his idea until these other guys produced a working model for him.

At that point he could swoop in with his patents and claim credit for everything they did as well. 

As in most patents, the inventions he described were improvements over prior art.

The phonograph patent, in contrast, was unprecedented in describing the first device to record and reproduce sounds. [35]

But as you see, that isn't true.

Cros described it months earlier.

this same Cros invented color photography as well but was scooped by Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron.

Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron (8 December 1837 – 31 August 1920) was a French pioneer of color photography.

We get different stories on this from Britannica and Wikipedia.

The same day, May 7, 1869, Charles Cros and Louis Ducos du Hauron presented their method of creating color photographs to the French Society of Photography.

They had not been in communication beforehand, and each knew nothing about the other's research.

Cros ended up conceding the invention to Ducos Du Hauron, despite having deposited a sealed paper at the French Academy of Sciences on December 2, 1867.

Ducos du Hauron had patented his ideas on November 28, 1868, almost a full year later, [7] but claimed to have written an unpublished paper on the subject in 1862.

According to that account, Cros should be credited as the inventor, and we should assume his 1867 paper was leaked to Ducos de Hauron.

Another French experimenter, Charles Cros, discovered the process independently, publishing his findings just 48 hours after Ducos du Hauron received his patent.

Charles Cros | French Poet, Inventor & Scientist | Britannica

That appears to be a straight-up lie from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

So, why did Cros concede anything to Ducos du Hauron?

I don't know, but I assume he was bought out.

I couldn't find anything on Ducos, but he sounds and looks like a noble and may have been a Duke of some country.

What about the alkaline battery, one of the other most famous inventions given to Edison on a basic search?

Wikipedia again all but admits Edison stole the idea from Waldemar Jungner.

Ernst Waldemar Jungner (19 June 1869 – 30 August 1924) was a Swedish inventor and engineer. In 1898 he invented the nickel-iron electric storage battery (NiFe), the nickel-cadmium battery (NiCd), and the rechargeable alkaline silver-cadmium battery (AgCd). As an inventor, he also fabricated a fire alarm based on different dilutions of metals. He also worked on the electrolytic production of sodium carbonate and patented a rock drilling device.

Jungner invented the battery in 1899, and Edison “independently” invented it two years later. 

Really?

So, Edison and his people didn't read the trade news from Europe I guess, despite being active in England?

Obviously, an expert on batteries.

Despite that, Edison and his people did everything they could to bury Jungner and steal the patents from him.

Since they had the billions of the Vanderbilts behind them, they could easily do that.

What about the carbon microphone, next on Edison's list of top inventions?

He stole that from David Edward Hughes of England, and Wiki says that most historians admit that.

David Edward Hughes (16 May 1830 – 22 January 1900), was a British-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. He is generally considered to have been born in London but his family moved around that time so he may have been born in Corwen, Wales.

Unlike Edison, Hughes didn't bother with patents, explicitly gifting his invention to the world.

Like these others we have looked at, Hughes was also an artist, being a concert performer on the harp and concertina.

Hughes had been at it a long time by the time of the microphone in 1878.

He had invented the printing telegraph system way back in 1855, making Western Union possible.

It formed two years later.

Hughes also discovered radio waves nine years before Hertz did in 1888.

What about the movie camera, next on Edison's list of top inventions?

He didn't invent that, either.

The only thing the Edison labs did was add a nice motor to the camera, and even that was invented by his employee William Kennedy Dickson.

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British-American inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison.

George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. After a decade of experiments in photography, he patented and sold a roll film camera, making amateur photography accessible to the general public for the first time. Working as the treasurer and later president of Kodak, he oversaw the expansion of the company and the film industry.

The celluloid film was invented by George Eastman and the camera was invented by William Friese-Greene.

William Friese-Greene (born William Edward Green, 7 September 1855 – 5 May 1921) was a prolific English inventor and professional photographer. He was known as a pioneer in the field of motion pictures, having devised a series of cameras between 1888–1891 and shot moving pictures with them in London. He went on to patent an early two-colour filming process in 1905. Wealth came with inventions in printing, including phototypesetting and a method of printing without ink, and from a chain of photographic studios. However, Friese-Greene spent all his money on inventing, went bankrupt three times, was jailed once, and died in poverty.

Greene sent details of his invention to Edison in 1890, and by 1891 Edison had stolen credit for the idea.

The next section is on the famous War of the Currents, which is what the Orson Welles film was about, and which they admit Edison lost despite playing extremely dirty, including killing animals in public demonstrations with AC just to make his points.

War of the currents - Wikipedia

Gruesome, but it tells us a lot about him.

What we miss in this section at Wiki is any mention of Tesla.

They frame it as a war between Morgan and Westinghouse.

George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who created the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, receiving his first patent at the age of 19. Westinghouse saw the potential of using alternating current for electric power distribution in the early 1880s and put all his resources into developing and marketing it. This put Westinghouse's business in direct competition with Thomas Edison, who marketed direct current for electric power distribution. In 1911 Westinghouse received the American Institute of Electrical Engineers's (AIEE) Edison Medal "For meritorious achievement in connection with the development of the alternating current system". He founded the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1886.

They provide a link to a longer page on the War of the Currents, but even there, Tesla is mentioned only in passing, and then only in the footnotes.

As a final dig, they tell us Tesla died in the New Yorker Hotel, which did not convert to AC until the 1960s.

This page conspicuously downplays the role of Tesla and exaggerates the roles of William Stanley and the Ganz Works team.

William Ford Robinson Stanley (2 February 1829 – 14 August 1909) was a British inventor with 78 patents filed in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America. He was an engineer who designed and made precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes, manufactured by his company "William Ford Stanley and Co. Ltd."

Ganz Works - Wikipedia

They make you think AC is all about transformers, which it isn't.

Tesla's Wiki page is also a mockery, and from reading it you wouldn't even understand why Tesla is famous.

They do their best to make him look like a nobody and a loser, passing over his greatest inventions by saying

it, or is

this.

The short section on wireless is especially pathetic and weaselly, since they don't even bother to tell us he invented it.

Instead, they just use it as an excuse to list all his failures.

Really criminal levels of misdirection and lying.

One of the absolute worst pages at Wikipedia, and that is saying A LOT.

The Jewish Hand Behind the Internet: Wikipedia – Library of Rickandria

The page reads like it was written by Edison's grandchildren.

The observations he made of the electronic noise of lightning strikes led him to (incorrectly) conclude [157][158] that he could use the entire globe of the Earth to conduct electrical energy.

Except that is not incorrect.

He did use the Earth to conduct electricity, both local parts of it and the globe as a whole.

Most mainstream scientists now admit this happens, not only with lightning but with the very existence of the ionosphere.

As I have shown, charge is moving straight up from the surface of the Earth everywhere, seeding the ionosphere, and this potential can be used in any number of ways, only some of which Tesla experimented with.

What Causes the Earth’s Heat? Answer: CHARGE – Library of Rickandria

Whoever wrote this page obviously isn't a scientist, but a propagandist paid to build walls and prevent scientific progress.

Misinforming the public like this is beneath contempt, though we have come to expect it from the Phoenicians and their stooges.

Tesla related in his autobiography that he experienced detailed moments of inspiration.

During his early life, Tesla was repeatedly stricken with illness.

Blinding flashes of light would appear before his eyes, often accompanied by visions. [238]

Often, the visions were linked to a word or idea he might have come across; at other times they provided the solution to a particular problem he had encountered.

Just by hearing the name of an item, he could envision it in realistic detail. [238]

Tesla visualized an invention in his mind with extreme precision, including all dimensions, before moving to the construction stage, a technique sometimes known as picture thinking.

He typically did not make drawings by hand but worked from memory.

Beginning in his childhood, Tesla had frequent flashbacks to events that had happened previously in his life. [238]

He noted in his autobiography that this affliction had developed his powers of observation and enabled him to discover a,

namely that every thought he conceived was suggested by an external impression. [51]

Tesla further wrote that

So, they admit that Tesla was very visual.

and just about every other Modern physicist.

Whereas he (like me) relied on picture thinking, they tried to outlaw it.

You should never stop keying on that, because it is secret to all success in physics.

But let's return to William Stanley.

That surname should look familiar to my readers.

Along with the name Cohen, it is one of the biggest red flags there is.

As expected, Wiki and Geni scrub him, making sure not to link him to the important Stanleys or any other family.

They skip over his early bio. Wikitree gives us a bit more to go on in, and we find Stanley was also a Manning and a Parsons on his mother's side.

But even here we have a fudge, since his grandmother is listed as both Washam and Wadhams. 

His brothers married Todd and Darlington, and he married a Wetmore.

The Wetmores are American royalty related to the Peabodys, being East India Company traders.

In the Stanley line he was also a Ford and a Scott, and they take us back to Heathfield, Sussex, in 1588.

Stanley was from Connecticut, where his family were among the founders of Hartford, coming over in 1634.

They were listed as one of the top four families from the beginning.

Harold Stanley (October 2, 1885 – May 14, 1963) was an American businessman and one of the founders of Morgan Stanley in 1935. For 20 years, he ran Morgan Stanley until he left the firm in 1955.

Stanley's son Harold is the Stanley in Morgan Stanley, since he formed that financial firm with J. P. Morgan's grandson in 1935.

Henry Sturgis Morgan Sr. (October 24, 1900 – February 8, 1982) was an English born American banker, known for being the co-founder of Morgan Stanley and the president and chairman of the Morgan Library & Museum.

Wiki tells us Stanley built the first practical AC transformer in 1885, but that is again a fudge, since it was taken from Gaulard and Gibbs and made obsolete almost immediately by Tesla's AC inventions of 1888.

But like Edison, Stanley used his family connections and patents to claim work and inventions of others.

The encyclopedias still use Stanley's name to help bury Tesla, as we are seeing.

That photo is strange, but not because it is fake.

Stanley is the short guy right behind Edison in the middle.

Ernst Herman Ridder van Rappard (30 October 1899 – 11 January 1953) was a Dutch Nazi and anti-Semite. After leading his own failed Nazi movement van Rappard enlisted in the Schutzstaffel and saw active service in the Second World War.

The van/von Rappards are Dutch/German/Swiss Jewish nobles and Nazi actors, including Ernst Ridder van Rappard and Fritz-Georg von Rappard, the latter being a fake Nazi general supposedly executed by the Soviets in their own fake Nuremberg trials in Velikiye Luki.

The Nuremberg Trials were Fake – Library of Rickandria

and Hessen-Kassel, the last of which links us directly to the Hanovers and Oldenburgs, Kings of England and Denmark.

But what is most strange about that photo is the room.

All these filthy rich people photographed in a small ugly room with no decorations and a single framed certificate hung catawampus.

Catawampus Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

The bookshelf behind them is nearly empty of books, which I would say is bitterly ironic.