GRUESOME SHOWMANSHIP DEFINED THE CONTEST BETWEEN TWO OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST INVENTORS-AS WELL AS THE FATE OFTWO AMERICAN GIANTS

摘要

Hell hath no fury like a mentor scorned. In 1884 world-renowned inventor Thomas Edison welcomed a brilliant young Serbian engineer named Nikola Tesla into his New York office. Tesla had been working on direct current [DC] electricity in Edison's Paris division for a few years. Edi- son's DC apparatus reigned supreme atthe time. ButTesIa had conceived of a new method using alternating current [AC], which, unlike DC, couldtransmitsignificantamounts of power over long distances.