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AC or DC? How Nikola Tesla Enabled George Westinghouse to Win the War of Electric Currents Against Thomas Edison.

AC or DC? How Nikola Tesla Enabled George Westinghouse to Win the War of Electric Currents Against Thomas Edison.

Westinghouse won the no-holds-barred battle to electrify America.

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Qui est Nikola Tesla, le « poète de la science » éternel rival de Thomas  Edison ? - Numerama

The smoke rises under each of the legs of the animal wearing copper soles. A few seconds later, the enormous mass staggered, tilted, and collapsed. In front of Thomas Edison's camera, on January 4, 1903, the elephant Topsy, guilty of having killed a man, died, crossed by an alternating current of 6,000 volts.

What prompted Edison to immortalize the circu…

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