The 19th century was a time of great scientific discovery. From John Dalton publishing his atomic theory in 1808, to Charles ...

Our communications world is predicated on this. Small scale electricity production already existed but the War of the Currents in the 1880s was about which current, DC (Edison) or AC ...

The war of the currents was fairly decisively won by AC. After all, whether you’ve got 110 V or 230 V coming out of your wall sockets, 50 Hz or 60 Hz, the whole world agrees that the frequency ...