[BC] Happy birthday and thanks for the electricity Nikola

[Jerry Mathis]

Ever since I read about Tesla as a kid, I have considered him the true
inventor of our electrical system as it exists today. Edison did indeed
invent many things, but he also took advantage of (read: swindled) the work
of others, including Tesla. Tesla was fortunate enough to meet up with
George Westinghouse, who, while no saint, rewarded Tesla for his
contributions to his employer, and mostly did Tesla right.

Edison's public electricity system, based on D-C, was rather quickly
replaced with Westinghouse's polyphase A-C system. Pockets of Edison's D-C
system still exist today, although I really wonder why. Too expensive to
modernize those old elevators?

--
Jerry Mathis

On 7/10/09, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net <RichardBJohnson at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Today marks the birthday for the inventor of Radio (don't argue).
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jul/10/tesla-electricity-inventor-birthday-anniversary
> Google has an interesting logo today!
> http://www.google.com/
>
> Nikola Tesla, although technically "wrong" in many of his observations, was
> a visionary who, with the help of George Westinghouse, won the AC/DC battle
> with Edison which allowed power to be generated by Niagara Falls and feed
> the new incandescent lamps in New York City, which replaced Edison's
> dangerous arc-lamps.
>
> His contributions to electrical engineering at such an early time in the
> history of same, continues to amaze many.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard B. Johnson
> Book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
>