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

[rich]

the more I read about Tesla, the more I like the guy

rich

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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).
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> Bekah
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> On Feb 16, 2009, at 9:26 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>> Did we discover this when we read Against the Day?:
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>> There was a BIG CONTEST to "light' the Chicago World's Fair with the new
>> technology.
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> 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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