i think i remember a quote from TAE during the time he and westinghouse were debating AC vs. DC in the public forum...which included bizarre demonstrations involving test electrocutions of an elephant and a condemned prisoner...that was along the lines of "Westinghouse's current will kill you all" came up empty, but in trying to find it, i found a sweet little page of TAE quotes: http://www.thomasedison.com/edquote.htm On Nov 21, 2007, at 6:21 AM, msprinzen at juno.com wrote: > My apartment building powered its elevators with DC current until > last year. Many years ago Con Edison supplied us with a transformer > to turn AC current into DC current so they wouldn't have to supply > us with the DC current, and then finally paid us to switch the > elevators to AC current directly. > > -- "Loran T. Hughes" <loran at oldcrank.com> wrote: > Just in case anyone missed the news: > > http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0328895.htm >