What year did Nikola Tesla work for Thomas Edison?

Find out more about inventor Nikola Tesla and his rivalry with Thomas Edison on Biography.com. ... at Niagara Falls. The following year, it was used to power the city of Buffalo, New York — a feat that was highly publicized throughout the world and helped further AC electricity's path to becoming the world's power system. read more

Always more of a visionary than a businessman, Tesla ended up selling most of his patents (for the healthy but finite sum of $1 million) to George Westinghouse, an inventor, entrepreneur, and engineer who had himself been feuding with Edison for years. read more

Nikola Tesla’s direct association with Edison was very brief. Tesla began work at the Edison Machine Works on 8 June, 1884. The only record in the Edison Papers regarding his employment is a list of Machine Works employees and their monthly salaries. read more

In the end, however, Edison held 1,093 patents, according to the Thomas Edison National Historic Park. Tesla garnered less than 300 worldwide, according to a study published in 2006 at the Sixth International Symposium of Nikola Tesla. read more