In the following years a bitter rivalry between Tesla and Edison, known as the " War of Currents ", took place over the preferred method of distribution.

* 1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.

When George Westinghouse suggested using high-voltage AC instead, as it could carry electricity hundreds of miles with marginal loss of power, Edison waged a " War of Currents " to prevent AC from being adopted.

Efficient, practical transformer designs did not appear until the 1880s, but within a decade, the transformer would be instrumental in the " War of Currents ", and in seeing AC distribution systems triumph over their DC counterparts, a position in which they have remained dominant ever since.

The War of Currents ended with alternating current ( AC ) as the only means of long distance power transmission.

The invention sparked the " War of Currents " between the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and the General Electric Company headed by Thomas Edison and J. P. Morgan.

See War of Currents.

The War of Currents eventually resolved in favor of AC distribution and utilization, although some DC systems persisted to the end of the 20th century.

General layout of grid ( electricity ) | electricity networksThe competition between the direct current ( DC ) of Thomas Edison and the alternating current ( AC ) of Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse was known as the War of Currents.

The company was historically the rival to General Electric which was founded by George Westinghouse's arch-rival, Thomas Edison ( see War of the Currents ).

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His golden opportunity came during the hey-day of the War of Currents between alternating current ( AC ) and direct current ( DC ).

* War of Currents

In the War of Currents era ( sometimes, War of the Currents or Battle of Currents ) 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 several European companies and Westinghouse Electric based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The " War of Currents " is often personified as Westinghouse vs. Edison.

However, the " War of Currents " was much larger than that: It involved both American and European companies whose heavy investments in one current type or the other led them to hope that use of the other type would decline, such that their share of the market for " their " current type would represent greater absolute revenue once the decline of the other current type enabled them to expand their existing distribution networks.

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