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

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The War of Electric Currents

The War of Electric Currents is about the battle between entrepreneurs, Edison with his direct current and then Westinghouse and a few other people. The inventions of Tesla with the alternating current were also inspired by Faraday. And in turn, so all Edison and a bunch of other of these, maybe even Tesla were inspired by Farborough. He's not technically an entrepreneur, but he thinks like one, he acts like one.

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