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AC/DC - The Savage Tale of the First Standards War

Name: AC/DC - The Savage Tale of the First Standards War
Brand: John Wiley & Sons Inc
SKU: 04921178
Price: 23.89 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Tom McNichol
ISBN: 9780787982676

Tom McNichol

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04921178

Publishers John Wiley & Sons Inc, September 2006

AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between suppor... Full description

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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 A"operating systemA" for his future inventionsA-not to mention the company he founded, General Electric.