Back to the future past with Tesla in AtD & Byron the Bulb?

[Bekah]

I believe something was mentioned about that - or I read it on one of  
the linked sites.   As far as I remember,  everything that had  
anything to do with Tesla was touched on (except The Prestige which  
wasn't published yet).

Bekah

On Feb 16, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Did we discover this when we read Against the Day?:
>
> There was a BIG CONTEST to "light' the Chicago World's Fair with  
> the new technology.
>
> Westinghouse, probably with a bid that cost more than they earned  
> beat out and embryonic GE company.
> Westinghouse owned all of Tesla's patents and motors.
>
> Now, simple backstory: [George] Westinghouse had bought all of  
> Tesla's AC patents, motors, discoveries
> in the 1880s, in a fair deal that made Tesla happy--and potentially  
> rich (with royalties).
>
> However, there was then an 'economic crisis' ,not unlike our  
> current one, and Westinghouse was going down
> until George talked to Nikola about renegotiating the royalty  
> arrangement---and Tesla, in a decision described
> as an act of overwhelming self-sacrifice, gave up those royalties.....
>
> A-and at the Chicago World's Fair, the loser, GE, exhibited an 8- 
> foot high light bulb!
>
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