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I think "stealing' is a bit harsh. Many, many people were experimenting with generating electricity at the time and neither Tesla nor Edison were the first to propose AC or DC. Merely the first to experiment with viable methods of generation.
Edison was a genius in his own right. Anyone can have a bright idea, but he could take an idea and develop it into a functioning, user-friendly, end-product.
Its a shame that Tesla ended his days as he did, but that was hardly Edison's "fault".
Anyway. Neither really one or lost in the philosophical sense. Electricity is generated as DC, turned into AC for transmission, and then 'transformed' back to DC by your home appliances.
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