AC/DC : the savage tale of the first standards war
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AC/DC : the savage tale of the first standards war
Jossey-Bass, c2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-189) and index
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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.
目次
Prologue Negative and Positive 1
1 First Sparks 5
2 Lightning in a Bottle 13
3 Enter the Wizard 25
4 Let There Be Light 41
5 Electrifying the Big Apple 55
6 Tesla 69
7 The Animal Experiments 87
8 Old Sparky 107
9 Pulse of the World 129
10 Killing an Elephant 143
11 Twilight by Battery Power 155
12 DC's Revenge 173
Epilogue Standards Wars: Past, Present, and Future 181
Further Readings in Electricity 187
The Author 191
Index 193
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