What sort of tactics were deployed by each side to convince people their way was better?What would the world be like if Thomas Edison had succeeded, and power were supplied by DC instead of AC?

In the last 1800s, there was a huge battle to determine what kind of electricity was going to light the world. On one side of the fight was Thomas Edison who insisted that DC was going to light the world and on the other was Nikola Tesla who thought AC was the better way.

From what you know about the two forms of electricity.

1. Name advantages and disadvantages of each type
2 . What sort of tactics were deployed by each side to convince people their way was better?
3. Why did Nikola Tesla eventually win the war?
4. What would the world be like if Thomas Edison had succeeded, and power were supplied by DC instead of AC?

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Write a short essay or paragraph of at least 300 words.
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Address all questions.
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