Chapter 1014: The Battle of AC and DC

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In the crowd, a reporter sent out this report to his newspaper;

"Mr. Tesla, in full view of everyone, connected the electricity through his hands. The voltage exceeds 20,000 volts and the frequency of vibration is one million times per second. A dazzling glow radiated from his body...... By the way, no one dares to easily express the imitation of such a thrilling experiment. After the test, Tesla's body and clothing continued to glow faintly for a while, showing a halo of scattered light. In fact, due to the excitation of electrostatically charged molecules, a veritable flame is produced, showing a dazzling, fluttering spectacle of white flames. This flame does not consume anything, it comes from the end of an induction coil, it is like water without a source, a technique without roots. ”

The inventor hopes to one day wrap his body in a soft layer of fire, but at the same time be safe. Mr. Tesla claims that with this current, a person can feel warm naked in the Arctic. Treating with this electric current is one of its possible practical uses. ”

Mr. Tesla also invited the distinguished envoy of the Qianguo Earl Lin Yiqing to the stage to perform with him, he made a fireball with an instrument under the watchful eye, and handed over the fireball with electric light to Mr. Lin Yiqing's hands, Mr. Lin Yiqing took the fireball, according to Mr. Tesla's instructions, threw the fireball to a human-shaped wooden target that had already been erected, the fireball accurately hit the wooden target and exploded, burning the wooden target to ashes, the audience's exclamation shook the sky, but this was not over, Mr. Tesla took a fireball from the instrument and handed it to Mr. Lin Yiqing, who used it to destroy a wooden target again, and in this way, Mr. Tesla handed over one fireball after another to Mr. Lin Yiqing, and Mr. Lin Yiqing used these fireballs to accurately destroy one humanoid wood after another, as if Zeus was using its lightning. This unique performance brought the atmosphere of the audience to a climax, and some women were so excited that they even fainted......"

"The preeminent German physicist Heymann. Mr. Hermholtz, who attended the photoelectric show as an official representative of the German Empire, firmly rejected Mr. Edison's claim, arguing that Mr. Edison knew too little about alternating current and that it was absolutely safe to use. He stated that he would recommend Mr. Tesla's alternating current system to the German royal family, so that the system could be widely used in Germany and bring happiness to the German people. Mr. Lin Yiqing also expressed a similar wish to Mr. Tesla, wanting to bring light to the ancient Qianguo in order to achieve the goal of reforming the Qianguo. ”

"Mr. Tesla's reputation has been greatly enhanced, and the bad effects of Mr. Edison's attack on alternating current have completely disappeared, and the chairmen and general managers of many large companies have said that they want to introduce Mr. Tesla's alternating current system."

When Edison first heard the news that Tesla had received funding from Lin Yiqing and had made deals with various companies for alternating current systems, he couldn't help but be angry. It didn't take long for his propaganda machine in Menlo Park to throw out batches of alarmist material, exaggerating the dangers of alternating current. In Edison's view, accidents caused by alternating current, if they could not be found, had to be artificially created to alert people to these hazards. This battle of currents is not only about the gain or loss of property, but also endangers the personal pride of a genius who pursues self-interest.

Through this outstanding performance, many people immediately saw the superiority of Tesla's alternating current system, and one newly naturalized American entrepreneur wrote, "It is clear to every unbiased, intelligent expert that the two systems complement each other exactly." ”

Some litigants (mainly manufacturers competing with Tesla) have objected to Tesla's patents, claiming that their people had made the inventions before Tesla. Among the inventors who filed such lawsuits was Walter. Bailly, Marcel. De Preez and Charles S. Hillardre. In addition, in order to get rid of Tesla's patents, General Electric came up with a trick to capture one of their company's outstanding mathematicians, Charles Brown. Steinmetz patented an invention called the "single loop" system. However, Steinmetz himself never wanted to covet Tesla's outstanding contribution in the field of alternating current.

These schemes have caused confusion in the public mind, and even some in the engineering community have been kept in the dark, knowing that the system, which is used almost everywhere, is purely a Tesla invention. In order to correct this confusion, at the suggestion of Lin Yiqing, Tesla hired a well-known lawyer to fight the lawsuit, and soon, the court issued a clear and convincing ruling to correct Tesla's name:

"It is thanks to Tesla's genius to capture and harness the uncontrollable, bohemian, and hitherto contradictory elements of nature and technology, and to use them to power human machines. It was he who first turned Arago's toys into electric motors, Byry's 'laboratory tests' into practical electric motors, and indicators into transmissions, and it was he who first thought that the obstacles of direction reversal and the contradictions of alternating effects could be transformed into rotational motion that produced electrical energy, into a rotating force field. ”

To others, it seemed to him to be some invisible barrier, an impassable flow and a contradictory force, but he held on to it. He aligned his direction and applied the power of electricity to practical electric motors in distant towns. ”

"The following judgment may now be rendered: all appeals are dismissed."

Unwilling to be defeated, Edison built a huge laboratory in West Lynch, New Jersey. People who live nearby suddenly find that their pet animals are missing. But they soon figured out what was going on, and it turned out that Edison had some schoolboys to catch cats and dogs for him, and he was given 25 cents for each one caught. Edison deliberately used alternating current to conduct a brutal experiment to electrocute the cats and dogs. At the same time, he distributed horrific leaflets with four large red letters on the headers: "Beware of danger!" The implication of these messages is that if the public is not careful, they may end up being "Teslaized" and dying.

Edison prepared for two years in order to take revenge. In a letter to his friend Johnson, he wrote: "It is absolutely true that anyone who uses the alternating current system of this madman of Tesla, regardless of power, will not escape within six months." Tesla has got a new thing, but it will take a lot of experimentation to make it practical. This kind of thing can never get rid of the danger......"

In the past, Edison had sent people all over the country to promote the advantages of direct current, and now, Tesla, at the suggestion of Lin Yiqing, is also doing what Edison did against the gas company back then, but Edison blamed Tesla in turn; "None of his plans worried me in the slightest. The only thing that bothered me was that Tesla spared no expense in sending personnel around the country. He's everywhere and he's going to build countless companies soon, and we're still in the dark......"

Tesla focused on the future and did not pay much attention to Edison's threats and intimidation, but he could not bear Edison's persecution and decided to launch a propaganda and education campaign to fight it. At Lin Yiqing's suggestion, he kept giving speeches and asking people to write articles, and he made every effort to show the truth to the public. Lin Yiqing told Tesla that he was determined to win this electric current battle for Tesla's company.

Tesla is also having money problems. The actual cost of switching his factory to Tesla's multiphase system would have been much higher than expected. Now that he needed a lot of money to expand and grow, and the bankers promised very little, Lin Yiqing once again reached out to help, and he secured a loan for Tesla from France's Rothchild Bank. Lin Yiqing also commissioned an excellent Jewish professional manager, Richard Lee. Sèvres (from Rothchild Bank) helped Tesla restructure his electric company and was responsible for promoting the alternating current system. Lin did this because he understood Tesla's aversion to working with others for two main reasons: first, other engineers often made Tesla angry, and second, Tesla hated any form of control. If Tesla had to deal with someone he worked with, it would be a chairman or general manager.

At the beginning of the War of Currents, Edison made a feint by bribing Albany's legislators to pass a law limiting the voltage of the current to 80o volts. In this way, he thought, the alternating current was restrained. But the lawmakers didn't buy his account, because Richard. Sèvres helped Tesla fight back by threatening to sue Edison and others for a conspiracy under New York State law.

Edison roared at his enemies: "This man is simply crazy, he is playing with fire*** sooner or later he will have to reap the consequences!" ”

In addition to a vicious propaganda campaign using newspapers, magazines, leaflets, and words, Edison also held Saturday demonstrations for press reporters. He gathered the reporters together and, in front of them, pushed the dogs and cats that schoolchildren had grabbed from the street one by one to a metal plate. The metal plate is connected to the alternator with wires up to 1000 volts.

Some journalists who were bribed by Edison sometimes helped with such performances exposing the sins of alternating current. Once, a journalist tried to grab a dog that was struggling to the death, but he himself received a terrifying electric shock. He described, "It was terrible to recall the situation, and it was as if the whole body and soul had been torn in half...... I felt like a huge, rough hammer was plunging into my flesh, which was trembling all over my body. "But the killing of animals continues.

Edison did risk his life in this struggle - but not his own. Edison, Samur. Insur and a man named Harold. Brown's (that is, "Professor Brown") former lab assistants negotiated a plan to kill a man with alternating current, so as to kill Tesla forever according to their wishful thinking.

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