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To: Old Professer
"Edison electrocuted animals using A.C. current to discredit Tesla."

Edison did this in order to prove A.C. was more dangerous than D.C.. True as far as it goes but Tesla proved that A.C. would work for transmisson purposes better than D.C. and Tesla was correct.

96 posted on 07/06/2006 9:39:14 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: blackbart.223

Westinghouse could build the transformers Tesla needed to power his giant projects.


101 posted on 07/06/2006 9:49:04 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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