Tesla vs Edison: The Life-Long Feud that Electrified the World (Oxford People)

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Nikola Tesla today is in large part unknown and lost sight of some of the great scientists of the modern era. At the same time as Thomas Edison, the most famous inventor in American history, gets all of the glory for discovering the light bulb. But it was once his one-time assistant and life-long arch nemesis, Tesla, who made the breakthrough in alternating current electricity.

Edison and Tesla carried on a bitter feud for years, but it was once Tesla’s AC generators that illuminated the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago under artificial light. Today all homes and electrical appliances run on Tesla’s AC current.

120 years ago, they were billed as the ‘Twin Wizards of Electricity’, here Nigel Cawthorne chronicles the life and times of the two great men to lend a hand us in the end make a decision just who in reality is the Electric King- Edison or Tesla?


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