The legacy of Nikola Tesla
The AC system that he helped to usher in |
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| Authors: | D P Sen Gupta |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012, India |
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| Abstract: | Alternating Current (AC) is used all over the world today. In India we use AC at 50 Hz (cycles per second) and in USA and
Canada at 60 Hz. During the latter part of the 19th century, even during the early part of the 20th century, Direct Current
or DC was widely used. Had we continued with DC, electricity would not have been as widely available as it is today and its
use would have been cumbersome, costly and severely restricted. We owe it mainly to the Serbian genius Nikola Tesla that electricity
has reached almost every nook and corner of most continents. |
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