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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.analog,net.physics
Subject: Re: Tesla anyone?
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 12:00:41 EST
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> 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
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