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AC/DC The Savage Tale of the 1st Standards War
Category: Science
Author: Tom McNichol
Copyright/published Year: 2006 by Jossey Bass
ISBN: 0787982679
Binding: Cloth
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.
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