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#83 Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

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No One Is Always Right. There Was No Future to It

Tesla and Edison are very much like oil and water. Tesla pointed out that a central station based on alternating current dynamos could liberate, there's that word again, electricity from the one mile shackle of Edison's DC plants. He lasted less than a year as an employee in New York. Far worse believe Tesla was Edison's approach to science. And it's these two do not that they don't they don't mix well.

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