AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War - Tom McNichol
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Early Technology
Nikola Tesla
Steampunk
Thomas Edison
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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, 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.
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This post has 8 comments
April 19th, 2015
Well drat I honestly thought this was a biography about the rock band.
April 20th, 2015
Horrible! Edison and his henchmen tortured animals, particularly dogs to try to frighten people away from AC current. One of his henchmen in particular loved to torture dogs and make them howl and scream in pain.
I was delighted to hear that idiot was electrocuted himself. Poetic justice.
Having said the above, I could not listen past that part and deleted it from my hard drive. Wept like a baby I did. Gave me nightmares.
If you are interested to listen to this, be prepared for the horror.
April 20th, 2015
dont forget, edison was a closet case - usually those kinds turn into serial killers, esp.w/the animal torture, unless they “invent” something…
April 20th, 2015
And speaking of animals, did you get to the bit about the executed elephant?
April 20th, 2015
Hey Jude. The guy on the left DOES look a bit like Angus…
April 20th, 2015
Edison was a dick eating a buffet of dicks.
April 22nd, 2015
@nylon: I heard about the elephant. I’ll never understand how/why some people do what they do…
you’re right about Edison being a closet case…. and you’re right about everything else you wrote.
If you’re not aware of this already, you might be interested to know that Edison himself wrote that “(he) never invented anything.” - from his autobiography Vol. 2.
I visited his museum in Dearborn Michigan circa ‘79. Although Tesla did work alongside Edison both there and in California, the museum was very careful to delete all mention of Tesla.
I enquired about this to the -then- museum Director who asked if I was from the Tesla Society! (No- just a student of real history!)
Side note: there is an audiobook about Tesla that mentions the torture of animals - and the subsequent electrocution of that damnable assistant to Edison. And for the same reason I mentioned about this book, I could not get past that chapter to hear the end of the book.
For the life of me I don’t understand why any of the descriptions had to be in either book. To me it just isn’t necessary.
July 14th, 2016
wow! this book sure looked interesting, but then i read these comments. not up for animal torture, so thanks for the heads up.
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