"bob haller" wrote in message
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On Jun 20, 10:57?pm, Metspitzer wrote:
I was watching a BBC show called "Light Fantastic" ?Part of the
show
shows how Edison was trying to build a market for electricity. ?It
showed many appliances such as the vacuum cleaner, kitchen mixer
and
the phonograph.

They then showed a logo sign that read.........Don't kill your
wife
with work! ?Let electricity do it.

Edison believed DC was safer. Westinghouse was his BIG competitor.

When the country moved from hanging to electrocution for prisoners
sentenced to death........

Edison called it westinghousing them........

AC still won out as the power for the nation

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You are right that it was a Westinghouse / Edison battle, but in
reality, the man
behind pushing for AC (who was robbed by Westinghouse, in some
people's view)
was Tesla.

Bob-tx