MAE-East still no generator

Mon Sep 9 15:26:30 UTC 1996

edison also used to refer to electrocution as "westinghousing 
people"

Jeff Young
young at mci.net


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> > I don't think so. AC is not very good for distance. When you have a AC
> > sine wave you also get reverse EMF that distorts the signal. AC is like
> > VHS it was at the masses first. DC like BETA works better, though if you
> > use DC you would have a lot more deaths because AC is a little easier to
> > take if you touch the wire at high currents.
> 
> Sometime around the beginning of the 1900s Edison and Westinghouse
> were waging PR war over whether the country should adopt DC or AC.  In
> an early preview of negative campaigning Edison appealed to public
> fear by noting that AC was used in electric chairs.  Edison lost that
> fight, of course, but got his revenge from GE winning the long-term
> economic battle.
> 
> Now that I can claim title to the most irrelevant NANOG posting in
> history, (intended) I return you all to the current battle ...
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