edison probably was kidding, he had a reputation as a cheapskate, and probably didn't have $50000 on hand anyway, nevertheless, tesla was deeply insulted, he couldn't find engineering work for two years after leaving edison's lab, but he refused to ask for his old job back, instead, he worked as a ditch - digger, making $2 per day!
after tesia and george westinghouse debuted their AC power system, edison went to great lengths to steer people
away from it. he staged public electrocutions of cats, dogs, horses,and even an elephant to show the dangers of high - voltage Ac electricity. he pain an assistant to invent the first electric chair, which was used to execute an axe murderer
in 1890,And he constantly used the word "westinghoused"to mean "electrocuted.