“my personal desire would be to prohibit entirely the use of alternating current, there as unnecessary as they are dangerous.” “Just as certain as death Westinghouse will kill a customer within six months after he puts in a system of any size, None of his plans worry me in the least.”
Thomas Edison on alternating current Edison's anti alternating current campaign "Damnable current" was made to try and prove how AC electricity was dangerous since it can give high lethal voltages by killing animals and inventing the electric chair to use against convicts in the death sentence.
|
|