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This is Pessimists Archive. I'm Jason Pfeiffer. If you know anything about the history of

electricity, you probably know about what's become known as the Battle of the Currents. It's a short

window in time, the late 1880s into the early 1890s, when three of the world's most famous

inventors duped it out over the future of electricity. Thomas Edison versus George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla,

and the very, very simplified version of the battle goes like this.

Edison was developing a system of electricity called direct current,

and Westinghouse and Tesla backed a different kind of system called alternating current,

and Edison took every opportunity to convince the public

that alternating current was

deadly and should be feared and resisted.

And this thing got heated.

Edison claimed that alternating currents are, quote, as unnecessary as they are dangerous, end

quote.

A headline in the New York Times on July 24, 1890 reported, testimony of the wizard.

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