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Milan, Ohio, 11 de febrero de 1847
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Edison's first invention, devised a very simple mechanical counting of votes in 1868.
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In 1880, Edison partners with J.P. Morgan to found General Electric.
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Edison plant established in 1882 in New York. It was the first facility to produce commercial power in the world and although it was a huge plant for its time, could produce and distribute electricity to about 330 ha of Manhattan.
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moved to the United States (1882), where he worked under Thomas A.
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In 1886, George Westinghouse, a wealthy businessman but a newcomer in the electricity business, founded Westinghouse Electric to compete with Edison General Electric. The first system was based on the discoveries and patents of Nikola Tesla, who passionately believed in the superiority of alternating current (AC). Their argument was that losses in the electricity transmission dependent on the intensity of the current (P = I ^ 2 * R) circulating through the line. For the same transmission power a
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In 1893 Nikola Tesla system was adopted by the hydroelectric plant located in Niagara Falls.
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That would solve current duel to millions of people at the opening of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Thousands of spectators flocked to the fairgrounds to see with their own eyes the new Tesla electricity. So when the president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, pressed a button and 100,000 incandescent bulbs lit up that space, the audience broke into enthusiastic applause. There was no longer any doubt, the AC tax had become continuous energy consumer twentieth century.
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