-Caveat Lector-
>Had Edision had his way, we would have been on the DC
>system with step-up generators every 5-6 miles, throughout
>the country. Thank God for the vision of George Westinghouse,
>who fully supported Tesla and his 60 cycle AC power generation.
and:
>Edison and Tesla had a falling out; Edison was a humanitarian.....Tesla
>and Westinghouse hand in hand, produced the first Electric
>Chair.......this resulted in Edison calling in the Westinghouse
>Chair....
no, Edison invented the electric chair (which uses alternating current)
as a method of execution to demonstrate that AC was "far more dangerous"
than DC.
Y'see, because Tesla had the patents for the induction motors and
generators you need to make cheap AC, Edison couldn't get his snout in
the trough that Westinghouse (Tesla's employer) was gobbling from.
Because AC is cheaper to produce and distribute, it was cheaper to the
customer and therefore more commercially successful. So Edison tried to
get it banned on safety grounds (broadly equivalent, in logical terms,
to getting north-bound roads banned as inherently less safe than
south-bound roads)...
Andrew
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