Who were Nikola Tesla‚ George Westinghouse‚ Thomas Edison? What role did each play in the development of the electrical utility industry? What were the advantages and disadvantages to the AC and DC electricity distribution systems? Why did AC win? Tesla‚ Westinghouse‚ and Edison were all key people in the history of the development of the electrical utility industry. Nikola Tesla improved the AC electricity distribution system‚ where Thomas Edison created the DC electricity distribution systems
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1. Who invented the telephone? (a) Thomas Alva Edison (b) Galileo (c) Alexander Graham Bell (d) G. Marconi Answer: (c) 2. Who invented the railway engine? (a) Charles Babbage (b) Isaac Newton (c) James Watt (d) George Stephenson Answer: (d) 3. Who invented Radar? (a) Henrey Becquerel (b) Max Planck (c) Robert Watson Watt (d) Humphrey Davy Answer: (c) 4. Who invented polio vaccine (oral)? (a) Albert Sabin (b) Burkholder (c) Luise Pasture (d) Jonas Salk Answer:
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However‚ he had a letter that introduced him to Thomas Edison. Edison was at the time a renowned businessperson and inventor who developed and supplied direct current electrical systems around the country. Over the following few years‚ the pair worked together but eventually parted ways after developing irreconcilable differences. Tesla incorporated the Tesla Electric Light Company after he parted with Thomas Edison. Evidently his interest in the alternating current system motivated
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is now Croatia. He came to the United States in 1884 and briefly worked with Thomas Edison before the two parted ways. He sold several patent rights‚ including those to his alternating-current machinery‚ to George Westinghouse. Nikola Tesla made dozens of breakthroughs in the production‚ transmission‚ and application of electric power. Nikola Tesla came to the United States in 1884 and briefly worked with Thomas Edison before they parted ways. He sold several patent rights‚ including those to his
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Biographiq. Thomas Edison: life of an electrifying man.. S.I.: Filiquarian Pub.‚ 2008. Print. Costa‚ Carol. Nikola Tesla: a spark of genius. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co.‚ 1994. Print. Dobtez‚ Wally. New Yorker Hotel. N.d. NYC ‚ NYC. Flickr. Web. 21 Apr. 2011. "Google Doodles: 2009 July - September." Google. google‚ n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2011. . Hughes‚ Thomas P.. "How Did The Heroic Inventors Do It." Inventions and Technology Fall 1985: Issue 2. Print. Jonnes‚ Jill. Empires of light: Edison‚ Tesla
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English scientistwho contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include those of electromagnetic induction‚ diamagnetism and electrolysis. * Thomas Alva Edison Born February 11‚ 1847 Milan‚ Ohio‚ U.S. Died October 18‚ 1931 (aged 84) West Orange‚ New Jersey‚ U.S. Edison was an American inventorand
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how it got this way today * Body History of GE From the start the same question has been asked “Why predict the future when you can change it” In 1890 Thomas Edison established the Edison General Electric Company by bringing his various businesses together. During this period a major competitor arose called Thomas-Houston company Thomas- Houston Company was a dominant electrical innovation company created from different mergers In 1892 the companies merged creating the General Electric Company
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and monarchies. The natural laws created by Adam Smith‚ which characterize the Industrial Revolution in the United States‚ led to a dramatic increase in competition and a transcendence in the rate of innovation‚ it is best exemplified through Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla’s war of currents. Adam Smith is regarded as the father of capitalism due to his work in political economics‚ specifically production‚
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Thomas Edison‚ Magnavox and Victrola all made an advanced design that performed very well. The main problems with horns was that they did not amplify the sound very well. To produce sound a needle moves up and down‚ creating a vibration on the clear diaphragm. That vibration pushed air and made a small amount of sound. Sound is then channeled inside of a brass arm. The horn is then used to amplify the sound to a greater amount. (Edison Tech‚Web‚2015) The planar speaker
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NATHANIEL JOSEPH D. GOBRES GRADE 4 – St. Catherine FOREIGN SCIENTISTS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS Aristotle Student of Plato and a tutor to Alexander the Great‚ Aristotle was a genius Greek philosopher and scientist of the ancient age. Born on 384 BC‚ Aristotle was a biologist‚ a zoologist‚ ethicist‚ a political scientist and the master of rhetoric and logic. He also gave theories in physics and meta physics. Aristotle gained knowledge in different fields with his expansive mind and prodigious writings
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