Edison vs Westinghouse (1 Viewer)

[jamesfirst]

Analyse secondary info on the competition between Westinghouse and Edison to supply electricity to cities


Is it necessary to talk about the business part of this story? About how Edison tried to discourage people to use AC because his company was in threat... etc etc?

 

[Hayzazz]

Yes you need to mention how Edison publicly did stuff like electrocuting animals with AC to discourage people from using AC.

 

[Aindan]

Yes you need to mention how Edison publicly did stuff like electrocuting animals with AC to discourage people from using AC.

what she said. That's the whole debate essentially.

 

[Hayzazz]

what she said. That's the whole debate essentially.

wtf stop calling me a her/she =.="

 

[jamesfirst]

-Killing animals in public
-Using AC to kill people in electric chairs
-Westinhouse winning the contract

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[rawrence]

-Killing animals in public
-Using AC to kill people in electric chairs
-Westinhouse winning the contract

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Yep, that's basically what you need, make sure you do say why he killed the animals and people (i.e. scare people about how dangerous AC was)

Bit of fun trivia, Edison actually called electrocuting people/animals "getting westinghoused" haha.

 

[jangbang69]

lol Edison, that old sook

 

[Aindan]

Edison is a nub. You know how he was like the most prolific inventor? well he actually just hired hundreds of other people to invent stuff in his factory and forced them to give their ideas to him!

 

[jamesfirst]

Yep I read that "Getting Westinhoused" in the Jacaranda Physics book.


I should to admire Edison but Physics HSC course helped me to realise that he is a dirty rat

 

[sinophile]

Edison is a piece of shit.

 

[Drongoski]

Amazing that "Edison vs Westinghouse" is part of study of HSC Physics. Next you'll have to study Gender Issues in Physics as well.

 

[rawrence]

Amazing that "Edison vs Westinghouse" is part of study of HSC Physics. Next you'll have to study Gender Issues in Physics as well.

The syllabus is stupid like that

 

[jamesfirst]

Lol..

At least it's interesting

Also I think they can make a great question by relating Edison vs Westinghouse with loss of power in the transmission line.

 

[malboroman]

Edison "westinghoused" an elephant. The 1906? Nobel prize for physics was to be shared between Edison and Tesla (who westinghouse employed and took most of the credit) but Tesla refused to share it with Edison a mere inventor and if I may say so a thief of intellectual property.