Back to the future past with Tesla in AtD & Byron the Bulb?

[Mark Kohut]

Did we discover this when we read Against the Day?: 

There was a BIG CONTEST to "light' the Chicago World's Fair with the new technology.

Westinghouse, probably with a bid that cost more than they earned beat out and embryonic GE company.
Westinghouse owned all of Tesla's patents and motors.

Now, simple backstory: [George] Westinghouse had bought all of Tesla's AC patents, motors, discoveries
in the 1880s, in a fair deal that made Tesla happy--and potentially rich (with royalties).

However, there was then an 'economic crisis' ,not unlike our current one, and Westinghouse was going down
until George talked to Nikola about renegotiating the royalty arrangement---and Tesla, in a decision described
as an act of overwhelming self-sacrifice, gave up those royalties.....

A-and at the Chicago World's Fair, the loser, GE, exhibited an 8-foot high light bulb!