t's not difficult to see why tesla resented edison. he was also less then impressed with his former boss's problem-solving skills. in 1931
the day after edison died, the new york times quoted tesla as saying, "if edison had a needle to find in a haystack,he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search i was a sorry witness of such
doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor