[FreedomPoster]

Bzzzt! Wrong answer. Edison pushed DC. George Westinghouse pushed AC, and won that standards battle for any number of good reasons. I think Tesla was an AC guy, too, but not sure.

[Cobra64]

Edison pushed DC. George Westinghouse pushed AC.

These guys were AC/DC, were they? They should have move to San Francisco; lot's of them there. Hehehe.

[meatloaf]

Westinghouse bought Tesla's AC patents. When Tesla first immigrated to this country he worked for Edision and tried to interest him in alternating current. Edison would have none of it.

Westinghouse went on to light the Columbian Exposition and won the contract to build the electrical generation equipment at Niagra Falls.

The controversy back then involved lots of mudslinging. On the Edison side a big issue was made of the danger of AC and the electric chair was used as a example.

Tesla was probably the one person most responsible for modern society. His inventions provided the basis of the modern electric utility. Today in any list of the most important individuals he's rarely mentioned. In some cases such as the Smithsonian, Edison has even been given credit for some of Tesla's inventions.

Another fact is that Tesla also held radio patents that predated Marconi's.

[Campion]

George Westinghouse pushed AC, and won that standards battle for any number of good reasons. I think Tesla was an AC guy, too, but not sure.

Tesla worked for Westinghouse after his falling-out with Edison.