which two inventors worked to improve the light bulb and electricity
Nikola Tesla vs. Thomas Edison: Who Was the Better Inventor? Nikola Tesla would have celebrated his 158th birthday today (July 10). The Serbian-American scientist was a brilliant and eccentric genius whose inventions enabled modern-day power and mass communication systems. His nemesis and former boss, Thomas Edison, was the iconic American inventor of the light bulb, the phonograph and the moving picture.