Posted by Mark - IN. on May 02, 2012 at 17:45:20 from (24.15.147.112):
In Reply to: OT— Old pics from NY posted by 641Dave on May 02, 2012 at 14:53:03:
Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing. Its abundantly clear that there was no OSHA when some of those photos were taken. I'm not going to say thats a good or bad thing. I have my own thoughts on them, and am sure others do.
I read an article somewhere that said that there is still a 4 square block of NYC that is DC powered. Thomas Edison was a DC freak and did not like AC. He campained against AC in favor of DC. As a matter of fact, when they executed a prisoner using AC, not that he personally cared, but he tried to use that to pursuade people that using AC in their homes could do the same to them, so what they really needed, was safer DC. So, as the story went or goes, there is a 4 square block of NYC that is DC powered as monument to Edison, and the DC lightbulbs, TVs, washing machines, and all else DC can be purchased by the folks living within those 4 square blocks from Edison the power guys, not Thomas Alva. True.
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