At both of these jobs, Tesla was able to invent improvements toIn Budapest, Tesla"improved the equipment and developed an amplifier" — while in Paris,"Tesla made improvements to Edison’s dynamos and created an automatic regulator," said the Tesla Science Center. "with four cents in his pocket," said the website Tesla Universe.
Nikola Tesla with his"magnifying transmitter." Tesla would go on to receive nearly 300 patents throughout his life. Despite Tesla's work to improve the generator, Edison refused to pay him, reportedly saying,"You don't understand our American humor." Among Tesla's notable achievements are patents for theThose patents were sold to George Westinghouse in May 1888. "The transaction precipitated a titanic power struggle between Edison’s direct-current systems and the Tesla-Westinghouse alternating-current approach, which eventually won out," said Encyclopedia Britannica.