Isn't that exactly Edison's old anti-Tesla PR you're burpin?

Post #14,668 by CRConrad 10/22/01 7:16:43 PM Reply	Isn't that exactly Edison's old anti-Tesla PR you're burpin?
Post #14,672 by Ashton 10/22/01 7:44:09 PM Reply	Yabut.. that's a can o'worms anyway. I'm by no means an expert on physiological effects of DC, AC and pulses, but have worked with and around the mix, and experienced various 'kinds' of shocks. Heard the caveats and saw a few cases where they weren't heeded. As you are doubtless aware (would I disbelieve a sig? ;-) Edison was in deep shit re the ^&#$ wiresize to get his DC sent all over the place, and T. 'solved' that cold / but with er side effects*.. Hence the pre Waggener-Edstrom spin about electrocuting elephants and such. (Did we really think those Wag-Ed droids were smart enough to invent spin? And they majored in Marketing!?) Anyway, PBS, BBC have shown various documentaries over here re the big brouhaha, the difficulties of Tesla (who worked briefly with Edison.. couldn't at all cotton to The Great One's tendency to assimilate and exterminate, so left.) Great soap opera 'bout the corporate mindset and greed generally. Tesla was fun - wish I could have seen that Colorado lab making lightning all around the building. Makes our puny 500 KV (DC) C-W generator pretty tame. Ashton
Post #14,695 by Andrew Grygus 10/22/01 9:54:42 PM Reply	The very one - but Tesla pulled the wool . . . . over the eyes of the press with an "AC Current" safety demo where the AC he used was in RF range, so the current travels only on the very outside of the conductor (his skin, in other words). This killed Edison's campagn, but it didn't negate the fact of the newly installed AC electric chair at Sing Sing prison. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #14,729 by Ashton 10/23/01 3:20:37 AM Reply	Yeah, wasn't that sneaky? - out M$'d M$..
Post #14,738 by CRConrad 10/23/01 6:29:14 AM Reply	But the POINT is, DC would have fried 'em just as well!
Post #14,780 by Andrew Grygus 10/23/01 11:24:21 AM Reply	"Fry" is the operative word here. The objective of Sing Sing prison was to eliminate the smoke, smell and sizzle of a powerful DC jolt by using a lesser AC one that stopped the heart. How successful this was would require comparative experimentation, which I do not care to engage in at this time (though captured Taliban might be good research subjects). [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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