Master of Electricity - Nikola Tesla: A Quick-Read Biography About the Life and Inventions of a Visionary Genius by Parker Cynthia A

Author:Parker, Cynthia A. [Parker, Cynthia A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timber Publishing
Published: 2015-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

The World’s Fair of 1893

Westinghouse and Tesla struggled against Edison to convince the public of the safety of A/C power over D/C. Westinghouse’s faith in the A/C system influenced the founding of Westinghouse Electric Company beginning in 1886. With his company now formed and Tesla in his court, Westinghouse deliberately underbid and won the contract to illuminate the Chicago World’s Fair that was to be held in May of 1893. Chicago was the first all-electric fair in history. Also called the Columbian Exposition, this exposition was to be a celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Columbus discovering America.

Move quickly forward to the World’s Fair in 1893. President Grover Cleveland switched a switch, and up to a hundred thousand glowing lamps lit up the fairground. The City of Light was powered by Tesla and Westinghouse’s twelve, thousand-horsepower A/C generation units residing in the Hall of Machinery. Tesla’s polyphase system of alternating current power generation was displayed in the Great Hall of Electricity, and the twenty-seven million people who attended the fair declared that A/C was the power of the future.

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