![]() ![]() You can read more about the battle HERE, but I thought it would be interesting to point out that this battle eventually became a political one. Westinghouse represented AC power and would be the eventual winner. In the other corner was Westinghouse Corporation, funded by George Westinghouse and led (intellectually) by Nikola Tesla. In the first corner was Thomas Edison and his company that would eventually become General Electric Edison wanted the world to run on DC. The proponents of this war knew that whoever won would determine the future of the power distribution in the United States and possibly the world. Why do we need both?Īs some of you may or may not know, there was a long standing battle between the two types of power raging back in the 1880s between two giants. DC power: Both are necessary in our everyday lives and switching between the two causes a great deal of strife in electronics. ![]()
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