ironic due to the fact that before AC, when trolleys were being run on Edisons direct current, Brooklynites were constantly getting shocked by the streetcars. Resultingly, an annoyed mass banded together under the slogan Trolley Dodgers, and when they were given a baseball team, it was natural to call it the Brooklyn Dodgers(Cheney 33). Edison went onto accuse Westinghouse of spreading propaganda and covering the land with agents and salesmen. Westinghouse was actually innocent of the above crimes, but Edison by far, was not. The accuser even went so far as to write a maudlin letter to the president warning him of the dangers about to be impressed upon the country by AC.The man has gone crazy, Edison raved, campaigning against Westinghouse. And to cap the fiesta with an explosive piata, Edison had an underling install the first electric chair in a prison, powered with alternating current of course. It was not a success. The first victim was only half fried, and they had to electrify him several times before he stopped squirming. Westinghouse did little to refute his opponents slanders and tricks. Nonetheless, alternating current was still popular. However, the 1893 Worlds Fair proved to the world the reality of alternating current(ONiel 102). This would be the first Worlds Fair to have electric lighting and Westinghouse got the contract to supply its power using Teslas Polyphase system. Telsa was the center of attention at the fair and took the opportunity to inform as well as dazzle the public(ONiel 103). Tesla performed several interesting feats, such as lighting a fluorescent tube held in his hand or suspended in the air and spinning a metal egg on its small end with the flip of a switch. But most important of all was Teslas personal exhibition of sending one million volts through his body. Tesla had discovered that if the frequency is high enough that one could send tremendous amounts of electricity through t...
