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Ac/dc the savage tale of the first standards war

AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict between technical standards, a battle of competing methods to deliver essentially the same product, electricity.

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  • "AC/DC zhi liu dianvs jiao liu dian"
  • "AC/DC"
  • "Zhi liu dian vs jiao liu dian"
  • "AC/DC直流電vs交流電"
  • "直流電vs交流電"

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  • "AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict between technical standards, a battle of competing methods to deliver essentially the same product, electricity. But the skirmish soon metastasized into something bigger and darker. In the AC/DC battle, the worst aspects of human nature somehow got caught up in the wires; a silent, deadly flow of arrogance."
  • "Presents a survey of the battle between Thomas Edison and European inventor Nikola Tesla over whether alternating or direct current would be the standard for bringing electricity to millions of people."
  • "AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict between technical standards, a battle of competing methods to deliver essentially the same product, electricity."@en
  • "AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict between technical standards, a battle of competing methods to deliver essentially the same product, electricity. But the skirmish soon metastasized into something bigger and darker. In the AC/DC battle, the worst aspects of human nature somehow got caught up in the wires; a silent, deadly flow of arrogance, vanity, and cruelty. Following the path of least resistance, the war of currents soon settled around that most primal of human emotions: fear. AC/DC serves as an object lesson in bad business strategy and poor decision making. Edison's inability to see his mistake was a key factor in his loss of control over the 'operating system' for his future inventions'not to mention the company he founded, General Electric."@en

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  • "History"
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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "商業標準大戰 : AC/DC直流電vs交流電"
  • "Ac/dc the savage tale of the first standards war"@en
  • "AC/DC : the savage tale of the first standards war"
  • "Shang ye biao zhun da zhan : AC/DC zhi liu dianvs jiao liu dian"
  • "商業標準大戰 : 直流電vs交流電"
  • "AC/DC The Savage Tale of the First Standards War"
  • "AC/DC the Savage Tale of the First Standards War"@en
  • "AC/DC the savage tale of the first standards war"
  • "AC/DC the savage tale of the first standards war"@en
  • "Shang ye biao zhun da zhan : zhi liu dian vs jiao liu dian"

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