Friday Mar 07, 2008
Question of the day
Why are power companies called "so-and-so Edison" when the A/C technology comes from Nikola Tesla?
updated: OK, I get it. Edison got there first, and founded the companies bearing his name. Although he eventually lost the fight (by some accounts, much nastier than the wars between Betamax vs. VHS and more recently HD DVD vs Blu-Ray) his name survives because the companies switched over, with no feeling of being compelled to rename to "Tesla" or "Westinghouse."
Interestingly, conEdison was still supplying DC power to customers until last year.
Posted at 03:00PM Mar 07, 2008 by AceOfSpuds in General |
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