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Re: dtds, schemas, xhtml, and multimedia technologies

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• Subject: Re: dtds, schemas, xhtml, and multimedia technologies
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:58:26 GMT
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• In-reply-to: <OKEOJCINEPLFHDLAOOJFCEEJCBAA.andy@e...>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>Just FYI, a tiny little company called General Electric created that
>standard at the behest of an employee named Thomas Edison. GE choose AC and
>pushed that. After the AC / DC argument was won, it became a standard.

Edison used DC, getting AC adopted for executions to prove how
dangerous it was.  It was Westinghouse that used AC.

-- Richard

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