On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 00:44 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/10/11 23:17, John Hasler wrote: > > I wrote: > >> The heirs of Herr Siemens might disagree with you on that, not to > >> mention Thomson, Faraday, etc. > > > > Scott writes: > >> and Tesla (AC). > > > > While born in Europe Tesla became a US citizen and did his important > > work as such. > > Yes - of course. I only watched "The Prestige" the other night - I must > be getting very old. > > Electricity didn't go much of anywhere without AC - I recall Edison > tried with DC. Can't remember alternators - would that be Seimens?? > > I suspect we can credit the USA with the petroleum industry - though > it's only "suspect". And geographic/political boundaries don't reliably > define much. > > Cheers
Long distances need high voltage and AC. I suspect Nikola Tesla was a Roma from Jugoslavia, since my Gypsy friends, Roma from Jugoslavia, know his name and his profession and claim that he was a Roma. Dunno, but since their general knowledge isn't profound, there must be a reason that they especially know Tesla. I believe that three-phase AC could have to do with Siemens, I've got no idea what role was played by George Westinghouse. I won't read the Wiki. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1317659123.2556.49.camel@debian
