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- War_of_Currents abstract "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). Edison's direct-current system generated and distributed electric power at the same voltage as used by the customer's lamps and motors. This meant that the current in transmission was relatively large, and so heavy conductors were required and transmission distances were limited, to about a mile (kilometre); otherwise transmission losses would make the system uneconomical. At the time, no method was practical for changing voltages of DC power. The invention of an efficient transformer allowed high voltage to be used for AC transmission. An AC generating plant could then serve customers at a great distance (tens to hundreds of miles), or could serve more customers within its economical transmission distance. The fewer much larger plants needed for AC would achieve an economy of scale that would lower costs further. The invention of a practical AC motor increased the usefulness of alternating current for powering machinery.Edison's company had invested heavily in DC technology and was vigorously defending its DC based patents. George Westinghouse saw AC as a way to get into the business with his own patented competing system and set up the Westinghouse Electric Company to design and build it. The Westinghouse company also purchased the patents for alternating current devices from inventors in Europe and licensed patents from Nikola Tesla. In spite of a protracted anti-AC campaign waged by the Edison company, the economics of the alternating current system prevailed. Alternating current was selected in 1893 for transmission of power from Niagara Falls to Buffalo, New York - the technical and economic success of this project led the way for the adoption of alternating current as the preferred electrical system.The "War of Currents" is often personified as Westinghouse vs. Edison.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]Direct current remained in commercial power distribution use for about a century after the "war of the currents", confined to high density urban areas, where, for example, passenger and freight elevators ran on direct current motors. Direct current found a new application in high voltage direct current transmission used to connect power plants to distant customer load. Direct current remained useful in certain traction systems, within vehicles, and in battery-operated systems. Often direct current loads were powered from the alternating current public grid with a rectifier. Direct current is also seeing new application in computer data centers, where DC distribution within a building can provide useful energy savings.".
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- War_of_Currents comment "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). Edison's direct-current system generated and distributed electric power at the same voltage as used by the customer's lamps and motors.".
- War_of_Currents label "Guerra das Correntes".
- War_of_Currents label "Guerra de las corrientes".
- War_of_Currents label "Guerra delle correnti".
- War_of_Currents label "Guerre des courants".
- War_of_Currents label "Oorlog van de stromen".
- War_of_Currents label "Stromkrieg".
- War_of_Currents label "War of Currents".
- War_of_Currents label "Война токов".
- War_of_Currents label "حرب التيارات".
- War_of_Currents label "电流战争".
- War_of_Currents label "電流戦争".
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