NYC Pulls Plug on Direct Current

The city that Thomas Edison electrified 125 years ago has completed the transition from direct to alternating current, helping to erase the vestiges of a feud between giants of invention.

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Superconducting power transmission lines buried underground. A solution to power distribution that American Superconductor is working on.

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January 4th,1903: Thomas Edison stages his highly publicized electrocution of an elephant in order to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current, which, if it posed any immediate danger at all, was only to Edison's own direct current.

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