06-03-2009, 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Wes Tausend
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Some of us reading this have seen the History Channel story regarding the fight between Edison with his proposed public DC power grid and that of Westinghouse who wanted to use AC. Westinghouse wanted to use AC because two windings close to one another act as a transformer to boost voltage pressure. And why this? Because high voltage can be forced along a smaller wire just like high pressure water can be forced through a smaller hose. AC made the grid transfer more practical. Edison lost, in spite of even electrocuting an elephant to show how dangerous AC was. Must have been quite the scorching public sight, with the elephant emptying his ...well. Siemens wasn't done.
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It was Nikola Tesla that favored AC. Tesla experimented with wireless power transmission too while he lived in Colorado Springs. |