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What problem did Thomas Edison face regarding the use of electricity?
Thomas Edison's problem was that few homes and businesses could get electricity. He solved this problem by building a power plant that began supplying electricity to dozen of New York City buildings in September 1882.
Who invent AC?
Willis Haviland Carrier is wrong he invented the air conditioner AC is an electrical current invented by Nikola Tesla. Thomas Edison who invented DC, used AC to make an electrical pad, killed cats and dogs to ruin Tesla because he wanted to prove it was dangerous, but DC is more dangerous.
How did Nikola Tesla rival Edison?
In the "War of Currents" era in the late 1880s, George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison became adversaries due to Edison's promotion of direct current (DC) for electric power distribution over alternating current (AC) advocated by Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla. Edison had major flaws in his DC machine. Tesla made it work right. Edison has the pattent. In few words looking back in time, research shows that Edison had his inventors working for him getting him the patents. Edison never had ideas like Tesla had.
What did Thomas Edison discover about electricity?
Edison pushed hard for DC power as a main stay for power generation. Tesla was the inventor of AC generators. Edison learned, over the years, how much better AC was over DC. He admited this many years later, as being his greatest shortcoming in vision.
Did Thomas Edison invent the AC?
No In 1859 Gaston Plante, a French physicist invented the first rechargeable battery
Why did thomas Edison invent the electric chair?
Thomas Edison didn't actually invent the electric chair but, paid Harold P. Brown to. It was invented because Thomas Edison's competitor Nikola Tesla had AC electricty (Edison had DC) and AC was cheaper but, more dangerous. Thomas Edison wanted people to know this (so more people would choose his over Tesla's) so he had it made and electrocuted William Kemmler (who had chopped up his wife and was sent to perison). this was called the war of currents
What problem did thomas Edison face regarding use of electricity and how did he solve it?
Edison had his electric incandescent light, but the greatest problem Edison faced with electricity was its distribution. Edison was a proponent of DC electricity. However, distributing DC electricity to the masses was expensive and, ultimately, proved impractical. George Westinghouse, along with one of the smartest people who ever lived (IMO), Nikola Tesla, proved that AC electricity was much more economically distributed. Tesla, at one time, worked for Edison but Edison found his AC ideas 'impractical.' Tesla thus went to work for George Westinghouse who, earlier in 1869, invented the airbrake for trains. This battle between Edison's DC electricity and Westinghouse's AC electricity culminated in 'The Battle of the Currents' in which George Westinghouse and his AC prevailed and why we use AC in the US to this day..
What are the Differences between tesla and Edison?
Edison advocated DC supply and Tesla AC, so Tesla was right in this respect
Why was Edison's plan to electrify cities less critical than Tesla's?
Edison motors of electricity were direct current motors which had problems. People wereelectrocutionin their homes and fires were common. When Tesla arrive in New York, Edison offered $50,000 if he could correct the problem. He did correct the problem and Edisondidn'tpay. Tesla walked out and never returned. Tesla offered Edison to work on the AC system but Edisondidn'twant anything to do with it. That was of one of the stupid things Edison did. With the AC system Tesla won the electricity war and lights the whole world.
Did Thomas Edison argue that your electrical system should use direct current because he felt that alternating current was dangerous?
Very strongly. Edison went so far as to make a movie of an elephant being executed with AC.
What is one invention that Thomas Edison seemed to keep working on?
ac generator
What problem did Thomas Edison face regarding the use of electricity?
Thomas Edison's problem was that few homes and businesses could get electricity. He solved this problem by building a power plant that began supplying electricity to dozen of New York City buildings in September 1882.
A form of energy that people make is called?
alternating current electricity, or AC current, or AC.
When did Nikola Tesla meet Thomas Edison?
Nikola Tesla was referred to Edison by a mutual friend. Tesla emigrated to New York and gave a recommendation letter to Edison who hired him to help develop DC power systems. Their partnership did not last long. Instead of working on DC power as Edison challenged him, Tesla chose to improve Faraday's AC power. Edison would not listen to Tesla's arguments for AC power, and Tesla quit. George Westinghouse then bought Tesla's AC patents, and directly challenged Edison in the current wars which Westinhouse eventually won. Ironically, many devices used today are DC (computers, cell phones, LED lights, etc.) as Edison predicted, and converters have to be used to step down from AC back to DC.
How do you think Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb changed the world?
Well, first of all, to clarify: Thomas Edison developedthe light bulb, and several other people were working on it at the same time. How Edison changed the world was to make electric lighting practical and inexpensive for everyone. However, had he not been forced (mostly by the work of Westinghouse) to go to alternating current, electric lighting would have never become the success it did. Edison insisted (wrongly) that electric lighting should be DC, not AC.
What is the conflict between Nikola Tesla and Edison?
Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were opponents in The Battle of the Currents, the rivalry between Tesla's alternating current (AC) system for electricity and Edison's direct current (DC) system for electricity. AC 'won' the battle, the current is far more effective. This means that all electricity used today travels by AC, not DC. All DC is used for anymore is batteries.
Why did Thomas Edison do that?
Because Thomas Edison was one of the biggest dicks in history. I mean the dude electricuted cats and dogs and even an elephant to try and prove that Nikola Tesla's AC was worse than his DC (Which was wrong AC was sooo much better.) And Edison turned down Tesla's idea of radar (which was invented 17 years after teslas idea of it) when proposed to the US Navy because Edison hated Tesla. Man Edison sucked, I mean what a jerk right?
