March 1914

摘要

Our obituary of George Westinghouse doesn't mention the rivalry for which he's best known today. One of the peculiarities of obituaries in archive editions of The Engineeris that they often don't cover what you might expect them to. We remember George Westinghouse as the father of alternating current, and for his 'war of the currents' with Thomas Edison, who was a proponent of direct current, believing it safer. It's a colourful story, taking in as it does the deliberate electrocution of an unfortunate elephant called Topsy (by Edison). But The Engineefs lengthy obituary of Westinghouse doesn't mention rivalry with Edison once.