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Electric Lights - A Great Year for Edison Electric
Edison was never really poor during his life, but he was never rich either. Whenever he achieved a tunn of success, he poured a bunch of money from that into these new ventures where he could tinker and invent new things. He's just sinking good money after bad for this reason,. There are multiple people who become fabulously wealthy from edison's inventions. But edison isn't one of them. In the late 18 eighties, edison makes integral contributions to the development of moving pictures - what we now call cinema or movies. And in 18 92, edison is forced out as the director of his electric light company and decides to go into, of all things,