This man pirated Georges Méliès film A Trip to the Moon and sold it in hundreds of theatres.
This man pirated Georges Méliès film A Trip to the Moon and sold it in hundreds of theatres. He demonstrated the use of alternating current on stray animals and advocated for its use in electric chairs as part of his smear campaign against it during the "War of the Currents" against George Westinghouse. He used the term (*) "filament" to describe the innovative glowing strand that made the first commercially successful incandescent lamp possible. For 10 points, name this "Wizard of Menlo Park," inventor of the phonograph and a practical light bulb.
This man pirated Georges Méliès film A Trip to the Moon and sold it in hundreds of theatres.
Thomas {Edison}