AC/DC (ePub)
The Savage Tale of the First Standards War
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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...
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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.
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „AC/DC (ePub)“
Prologue Negative and Positive. 1 First Sparks. 2 Lightning in a Bottle. 3 Enter the Wizard. 4 Let There Be Light. 5 Electrifying the Big Apple. 6 Tesla. 7 The Animal Experiments. 8 Old Sparky. 9 Pulse of the World. 10 Killing an Elephant. 11 Twilight by Battery Power. 12 DC's Revenge. Epilogue Standards Wars: Past, Present, and Future. Further Readings in Electricity. The Author. Index.
Autoren-Porträt von Tom McNichol
TOM MCNICHOL is a contributing editor for Wired magazine. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Salon, the Washington Post, and the Guardian. His radio commentaries and satires have aired on NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Marketplace. He's the author of Barking at Prozac (Crown Publishing, 1997), and his work appears in the anthology Afterwords: Stories and Reports from 9/11 and Beyond (Washington Square Press, 2002).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tom McNichol
- 2011, 1. Auflage, 208 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1118047028
- ISBN-13: 9781118047026
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.01.2011
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