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"Dennis, Andrew" wrote:
>
> -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.
>
If, in fact, this had been the case, electricity would have been more
expensive, but power plants would have been more local, perhaps
developments would have lead to personal electrical power plants. The
development strategy would have been far different. Also, fewer overhead
power lines, some of which are purported to be dangerous. And, of
course, y2k would be far less a potential problem with many more smaller
power plants and no large grids. Also, there are other benefits to DC,
such as its being more easily controlled.
> 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.
I am not too sure that it was Edison who invented the electric chair. As
I recall, he electrocuted some dogs before reporters to show the dangers
of AC. I believe others invented the electric chair. However, I am sure
he was not disappointed at the bad publicity for AC. (And incidentally,
every year several hundred people are electrocuted).
>
> 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)...
>
Was there actually any legislation that you can cite which was
introduced to stop AC? If so, did Edison have a connection? If not, by
what right do you accuse Edison of "trying to get it banned"?
Howard Davis
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