bob haller wrote:

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

Edison was a hack. Westinghouse had the induction and polyphase generation
patents from Nikola Tesla in his pocket, which established a superior system
of electrical power generation and distribution, which we are still using to
this day.

Jon