96: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse)
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The Wizard of Menlo Park
The wizard of menlow park isn't content to sell his incandescent lie bulbs and lighting system just in the us. He's going after the european market as well. To that end, alva sent his english right hand man, charles bachelor, aka batch, across the atlantic to run things from the paris area. And wouldn't you know it, nicola soon found himself in batch's employ during this time,. The lanky engineer rose early each morn to swim in paris's seine river, then walk to his job over in ili surcene. But don't let those glamorous mornings make you think the eastern european wasn
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