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  2. War of the currents - Wikipedia

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    The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s; arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...

  3. The Current War - Wikipedia

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    The Current War. The Current War[ a] is a 2017 American historical drama film inspired by the 19th-century competition between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over which electric power delivery system would be used in the United States (often referred to as the "war of the currents"). Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, written by Michael ...

  4. Nikola Tesla - Wikipedia

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    Nikola Tesla. Nikola Tesla ( / ˈtɛslə /; [ 2] Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла, [nǐkola têsla]; 10 July [ O.S. 28 June] 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American [ 3][ 4] engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

  5. Edisonian approach - Wikipedia

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    Inventor Nikola Tesla is quoted as saying "[Edison's] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 percent of the labour ...

  6. World Wireless System - Wikipedia

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    World Wireless System. The Wardenclyffe Power Plant prototype, intended by Nikola Tesla to be a "World Wireless" telecommunications facility. The World Wireless System was a turn of the 20th century proposed telecommunications and electrical power delivery system designed by inventor Nikola Tesla based on his theories of using Earth and its ...

  7. Fragments of Olympian Gossip - Wikipedia

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    Fragments of Olympian Gossip. "Fragments of Olympian Gossip" is a poem that Nikola Tesla composed in the late 1920s for his friend the German poet and mystic George Sylvester Viereck. It made fun of the scientific establishment of the day. [1] While listening on my cosmic phone. I caught words from the Olympus blown. A newcomer was shown around;

  8. List of Nikola Tesla writings - Wikipedia

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    Nikola Tesla's New Wireless, The Electrical Engineer - London, December 24, 1909; Presentation of the Edison Medal to Nikola Tesla, May 8, 1917; Tesla's Views on Electricity and the War, The Electrical Experimenter, August 1917; Rain Can Be Controlled and Hydraulic Force Provided . . . , Syracuse Herald, ca. February 29, 1920

  9. Colorado Springs Notes, 1899–1900 - Wikipedia

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    A small coil co-ordinated with 26 subject basic frequency likewise strongly one excited. Colorado Springs Notes, 1899–1900 ( ISBN 8617073527) (Published by Nolit: Beograd, Yugoslavia, 1978) is a book compiled and edited by Aleksandar Marinčić and Vojin Popović detailing the work of Nikola Tesla at his experimental station in Colorado ...