Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site mako.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!orca!mako!jans From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) Newsgroups: net.analog,net.physics Subject: Re: Tesla anyone? Message-ID: <613@mako.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 20:02:19 EST Article-I.D.: mako.613 Posted: Fri Mar 1 20:02:19 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 08:19:36 EST References: <391@cadovax.UUCP> <1994@wateng.UUCP> <413@cadovax.UUCP> <406@hou2g.UUCP> Reply-To: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 14 Xref: watmath net.analog:181 net.physics:2193 Summary: In article <406@hou2g.UUCP> stekas@hou2g.UUCP (J.STEKAS) writes: >The Tesla(AC)-Edison(DC) feud was long and bitter... No dirty trick was too >low for Edison to employ on his own behalf. He... promolgated the idea that >AC was dangerous. He and his cohorts even had the electric chair at >Sing-Sing prison wired with AC to emphasize its "lethal" nature! > The story I heard was that the first person to sit in that particular chair lived through several attempts, and it was this ghastly experience (to Edison's chagrin) that finally won the war in favor of AC for power and DC for electric chairs! (I think I read all this in a Popular Electronics article -- can anyone verify?) -- :::::: Jan Steinman Box 1000, MS 61-161 (w)503/685-2843 :::::: :::::: tektronix!tekecs!jans Wilsonville, OR 97070 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::