Who invented AC?
George Westinghouse vs. Nikola Telsa
George Westinghouse
- The concept of AC was made before Telsa was born.
- He was able to continue the concept of AC.
- Telsa worked for him.
- He built 3 generator at Niagara fall to help futher the concept of AC.
- First commercial AC system in U.S. designed by Westinghouse.
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Nikola Telsa
- He did help improve on AC concept.
- He argued in court that he "dream up" a polyphase motor, with no evidence. (He manage to win this case which gave him credit to most inventions.)
- Telsa mainly got credit for inventions he helped on.
- He studied AC while in college.
- He was not indispensable to getting AC in place as the dominant means of electric power transmission.