Re: What chance do we have?

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Parpp807-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 12/26/00 12:14:25 PM Central Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

<< Even Tesla-ites can be thin on their history >>

<< One of the questions was who invented A.C. current, well
 naturally i said tesla, but when i looked it up in the book it said george
 westinghouse.   >>

Hi Jeremiah, Matt and Terry (The 3rd)

Glad I'm thin on something. There is no contradiction unless George 
Westinghouse,
the man, as distinguished from GW the business man in the process of building
Westinghouse, the Company, did original work in the developing electrical 
technology
as did Steinmetz and Tesla.

George Westinghouse was still quite young when he started Westinghouse
Electric in the mid 1880s. GW recognized the importance of AC when he 
purchased the French patents on the transformer. His financial interest in 
the AC technology
was as strong as Edison's in the DC system. But GW had already made his
megabucks on the air brake and other railroad equipment like the semaphore 
signal system. The Westinghouse Air Brake Company would expand into the
great Westinghouse Electric Company and Nikola Tesla was the genius hired by
GW to build the technology. By the end of the century and into the early 
1900's, J.P.
Morgan and his interests were building General Electric. Westinghouse, JP 
Morgan, and GE engaged in a major anti-trust and patent war. This gets too 
far off the list topic
but it was around this time that the other genius of AC technology arrived at 
GE and he
is Charles Steinmetz.

Happy day,
Ralph Zekelman