War+of+the+Currents

War of the Currents ” Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman, known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park", pushed for the development of a DC power network Edison's response to the limitations of direct current was to generate power close to where it was consumed (today called [|distributed generation] ) Nikola Tesla, inventor, physicist, and electro-mechanical engineer, was known as "The Wizard of the West" and was instrumental in developing AC networks. Tesla's achievements and his abilities as a showman demonstrating his seemingly miraculous inventions made him world-famous Westinghouse Early AC System  Tesla's "Dynamo Electric Machine”