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'The Current War: Director's Cut' shows how the electric power system we take for granted came to be

  • Written by Jay Apt, Professor, Tepper School of Business, Engineering and Public Policy and Co-Director, Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University
'The Current War: Director's Cut' shows how the electric power system we take for granted came to beBuildings at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, illuminated by George Westinghouse's alternating current.Field Museum Library/Wikipedia, CC BY

Many experts view the electric power grid as the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century. But if Thomas Edison, inventor of the first commercial power plant, had had his way, the...

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