Re: steam power

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Original poster: "tesla by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-cyberverse-dot-com>

Ed:

Perhaps my terminology was off. What I meant was the power system in use
today, as in the one that Tesla helped Westinghouse with. Your right, Edison
did have a grid.

Gene Lambert

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> Understand about the water.  Had noticed the stream was discontinuous
> but didn't attach the appropriate significance to it.  Not sure what the
> Edison crew meant by "power grid", but they could be right.  Edison's
> first real DC power distribution system (Pearl Street station, New York
> circa 1882) did use a "grid" system.  There were no switches or breakers
> and there were a lot of parallel and interconnected lines feeding the
> customers.  If a fault (short to ground) occurred it just burned itself
> open!  Of course, the distances involved were perhaps a mile and I think
> the crew really meant an interconnected system of power sources and
> loads, which didn't develop until later and with which Edison had no
> involvement.
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