and this: Westinghouse responded angrily. "Yes, the alternating current will kill people. So will dynamite and whiskey."
On Nov 21, 2007, at 7:51 AM, Peter Fraser wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
