My apartment building powered its elevators with DC current until last year. Many years ago Con Edison supplied us with a transformer to turn AC current into DC current so they wouldn't have to supply us with the DC current, and then finally paid us to switch the elevators to AC current directly.
-- "Loran T. Hughes" <[email protected]> wrote: Just in case anyone missed the news: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0328895.htm Loran _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org From [email protected] Wed Nov 21 07:51:03 2007 From: [email protected] (Peter Fraser) Date: Wed Nov 21 07:51:18 2007 Subject: [Phono-L] Last Con Edison Direct Current Customer Is History In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> References: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> i think i remember a quote from TAE during the time he and westinghouse were debating AC vs. DC in the public forum...which included bizarre demonstrations involving test electrocutions of an elephant and a condemned prisoner...that was along the lines of "Westinghouse's current will kill you all" came up empty, but in trying to find it, i found a sweet little page of TAE quotes: http://www.thomasedison.com/edquote.htm On Nov 21, 2007, at 6:21 AM, [email protected] wrote: > My apartment building powered its elevators with DC current until > last year. Many years ago Con Edison supplied us with a transformer > to turn AC current into DC current so they wouldn't have to supply > us with the DC current, and then finally paid us to switch the > elevators to AC current directly. > > -- "Loran T. Hughes" <[email protected]> wrote: > Just in case anyone missed the news: > > http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0328895.htm >
