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‘The War of Currents’ Thomas Alva Edison Vs Nikola Tesla While Thomas Edison is known for several inventions, he was also a canny businessman who could commercialize inventions and turn them into profitable businesses. Nikola Tesla was just the opposite: a prolific inventor who died penniless.
When Tesla first moved to the United States, he idolized Edison and got a job under him. However, they soon had a falling out and Tesla resigned. An epic AC versus DC rivalry later developed between Edison and Tesla. In the early days of electricity, Edison held patents related to direct current and was a proponent of using this technology to transmit electricity over long distances. However, direct current is unwieldy and alternating current (AC), which Tesla invented, has proven to be a vastly superior technology for electrical transmission
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‘The War of Currents’ - Thomas Alva Edison Vs Nikola Tesla

‘The War of Currents’
- Thomas Alva Edison Vs Nikola Tesla

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