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The Electrical Grid (2020)

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CHAPTER

Electrifying the Country With a C Power

After the botch electrocution of william kemler, westing house responded to the incident. Meanwhile, edison treated it merely as a bump in the road. He claimed future electrocutions a c power would go much smoother. But he ultimately failed to coni the public that alternating current therefore should not be used as the dominant system of electrifying the country.

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