"The problem with Direct Current is you can't change the voltage, what you generate that's what you get, and if you generate the power at too high a voltage you would blow out lamps at the other end, if you get the proper voltage for the lamps and you want to to go any great distance (more than 2 miles) then you need copper wire that's as thick as your arm."
Charles Ruch, Westinghouse Historian During the 1800s, America was going through a second industrial revolution and needed a new system for electricity to be widespread. Edison's DC (Direct Current) power the electrons would travel in one continuous direction and in some places of New York the wires were so thick the sun was blocked out due to them. In AC power, (Alternating Current) the electrons would alternate back and forth which lowered electrical resistance allowing thinner wires and longer transmission lines.
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