This video clip from the Family Guy animated sitcom depicts Thomas Edison stealing the ownership of the inventions of the lightbulb and phonograph.
While the Family Guy is a fictional show, an announcer reinforces the claim:
Look it up. Edison was a dick!
I don't believe that Thomas Edison stole these inventions.
There are other articles on the internet making similar claims:
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Tesla worked for Edison in America for between six months and a year. According to Tesla in his autobiography, Edison got 25 patents off of Tesla’s work. Tesla did not suggest that Edison stole his ideas, but he did say that Edison didn’t compensate him for what he was promised to have been paid.
Was Thomas Edison really the "total dick" that people on the internet make him out to be?
Did Thomas Edison steal the invention of the light bulb and the phonograph?