[Phono-L] Edison and the Tube/bragging on Steve Medved.(Now Tesla and Steve)

Tesla was another nemesis of Edison. He developed A/C current as an alternative to Edison's safer, but less efficient, and more problematic DC systems. Tesla, a native Serb, developed the idea of stepping up voltages to very high levels for transmission, and then stepping them down again

[Phono-L] Edison and the Tube/bragging on Steve Medved.(Now Tesla and Steve)

But we shouldn't take a professional rivalry as hatred; when Edison heard about Tesla's laboratory being destroyed by fire, he offered space in his own buildings for Tesla to use. It seems that Edison resented George Westinghouse, instead of Tesla. The War of the Currents has been a little

[Phono-L] Edison and the Tube/bragging on Steve Medved.(Now Tesla and Steve)

/bragging on Steve Medved.(Now Tesla and Steve) But we shouldn't take a professional rivalry as hatred; when Edison heard about Tesla's laboratory being destroyed by fire, he offered space in his own buildings for Tesla to use.