Who was the leading force in trying to make ac current the standard for over powerlines.?

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Answer 1

George Westinghouse

Answer 2

Tesla, Nikola

(tĕs´l) , 1856—1943, American electrician and inventor, b. Croatia (then an Austrian province). He emigrated to the United States in 1884, worked for a short period for Edison, and became a naturalized American citizen (1891). A pioneer in the field of high-voltage electricity, he made many discoveries and inventions of great value to the development of radio transmission and to the field of electricity. These include a system of arc lighting, the Tesla induction motor and system of alternating-current transmission, the Tesla coil, generators of high-frequency currents, a transformer to increase oscillating currents to high potentials, a system of wireless communication, and a system of transmitting electric power without wires. He produced the first power system at Niagara Falls, N.Y. There is a museum dedicated to his work in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro.

See biographies by H. B. Walters (1961), J. J. O'Neill (1968, repr. 1986), I. Hunt and W. W. Draper (1986); J. J. O'Neil (1986), and B. H. Johnston (1989).

Tesla invented 3 phase power! Edison wanted to use 12 volt electricity. During the 1903 worlds fair Tesla (Backed by westing house ) power it from a power plant 20 miles away! Since that time 110 volts 60 Hz. has been the standard in the USA.

Answer 3

George Westinghouse

http://webphysics.iupui.edu/jittworkshop/251Sp98GFMar23.html

Answer 4

Nicoali Tesla, the father of AC current, and the man who profited most from his work George Westinghouse. The utility of AC current however, speaks for itself.

Answer 5

Westinghouse and Edison both competed. West.. was AC Edison was DC. It turned out that it was easier to send AC voltage over longer distances without huge power loss so it won out. Plus, Westinghouse had a better infrastructure before Edison did to support his enterprise, so he could implement his power gird before Edison could have. Eventually, Edison jumped on the AC bandwagon.