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Old 08-07-2010, 12:30 AM
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Originally Posted by neverending View Post
Hmmm... I had read that Edison campaigned to get the AC electric chair approved because he wanted people to be frightened of AC current...
Yeah - it was mostly to discredit AC because it was a rivial system to Direct current. He also had a dislike for Tesla though he once worked for Edison..

I always got the impression that Tesla was a superior inventor than Edison but lacked any real business skills.
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