Opinion

AC v DC: The power struggle over electric current outputs

By Mathew Dickerson: Tech Talk
October 7 2021 - 5:00pm
Thomas Edison launches AC electricity transmission in the 1890s. Photo: Shutterstock.
Thomas Edison launches AC electricity transmission in the 1890s. Photo: Shutterstock.

The famous current war that was fought between Thomas Edison on one side and George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla on other side was a war of two electricity transmission methods.