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Posted by David Sherman [24.32.202.83] on Thursday, February 04, 2010 at 19:29:37 :
In Reply to: Doc Dave & I are....... posted by Spence [66.226.44.47] on Thursday, February 04, 2010 at 19:15:24 :
He was pretty sharp when he was young, invented lots of good stuff,and made Westinghouse a rich man, but when the space aliens from Venus began talking to him, I think some of his screws started coming loose. He got pretty strange in his old age, sort of like Howard Hughes.
Edison definitely never went crazy, and he seems to have suffered more from history than Tesla. Maybe Tesla's more the man for the "new age", whereas with Edison, you always see pictures of him in a dingy sepia-colored lab or factory that violates every OSHA rule in the book, and if that's not enough, there's the movie of him electrocuting an elephant (after having electrocuted numerous smaller animals) in order to prove that AC was dangerous.
As for your question, if you're talking about Tesla's AC power plant, the second had to be either near Colorado Springs, a plant of his own design that he overloaded by being their biggest customer, or one up at a mine in the mountains west of Denver whose name I can't recall. I'm thinking one of the very early installations was right here, either at Post Falls, Spokane Falls, or maybe Thompson falls, under the Washington Water Power company, and used to provide electricity for the Coeur d'Alene mines.
So, what's the right answer?
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