Contested Currents
The Race to Electrify America

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Sounds

Train sounds from http://www.grsites.com

Images

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PRR_D1_AirBrake.jpg
PRR D1 locomotive fitted with experimental Westinghouse air brake equipment during the 1869 trials of this on the Pennsylvania Railroad that led to the road's adoption of it in 1870. Scanned from Motive Power Development on the Pennsylvania Railroad System by Paul T. Warner, 1924.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tesla_polyphase_AC_500hp_generator_at_1893_exposition.jpg
Tesla's Polyphase Alternating Current 500 horse power generator, in Westinghouse exhibit in the Electricity building of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

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Tesla's Polyphase Alternating Current exhibit nearby the Westinghouse display in the Electricity building of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Interior Electricity Building from north gallery, Sept.; -From Brooklyn Museum Archives, Goodyear Archival Collection (S03_06_01_016 image 2178)