" With the alternate system you will have absolute, unquestionable success.
Nikola Tesla in a conversation with Adams the president of the Niagara Falls commission.
Nikola Tesla in a conversation with Adams the president of the Niagara Falls commission.
After the canal was built the Niagara Falls commission made the decision on whether to have AC or DC power, for the power plant in 1893. Two years before in 1891, in America only 202 DC central stations were installed in contrast to the roughly 1,000 AC central stations installed by Westinghouse electric and Thomson-Hudson. AC electricity could be effectively transmitted much longer than 2 miles and the success of the Columbian Exposition helped sway the Commission toward AC polyphase transmission.
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