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Niagara and the current war
1895
Niagara Falls, New York
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
The Adams station settled the argument between direct and alternating current by sending Niagara's power twenty-six miles to Buffalo, which direct current could not have done. Tesla's polyphase system was chosen over Edison's, and the modern grid follows from it.
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