Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Newsgroups: net.analog,net.physics Subject: Re: Tesla anyone? Message-ID: <790@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 12:00:41 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.790 Posted: Fri Mar 1 12:00:41 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:28:14 EST References: <391@cadovax.UUCP>, <1994@wateng.UUCP>, <413@cadovax.UUCP>, <406@hou2g.UUCP> Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.analog:179 net.physics:2192 <> > The Tesla(AC)-Edison(DC) feud was long and bitter. > ... > [Edison] and his cohorts even had the electric > chair at Sing-Sing prison wired with AC to emphasize its "lethal" nature! Actually, I have heard that AC really is somewhat more dangerous than DC of a comparable voltage because AC has a greater likelihood of inducing heart fibrillation. Anyway, I read somewhere that Edison or one of his pals proposed at one time that execution by electricity (what we now call "electrocution") be called, in keeping with the Guillotine tradition, "Westinghousing" !!! (And you wonder why companies guard their trademarks so jealously... I actually feel some sympathy for the producers of the "Ayds reducing plan".) -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary