He wrote several pieces in the papers painting the horrors of electricity and how deadly it truly was. He told false stories of deaths caused by the use of electricity in private homes. Rockefeller’s pieces began making the public weary of the use of electrical lighting. To try and make the public distrust AC electricity, Edison invented the electric chair for New York State Penitentiary and used Tesla’s AC generators. This backfired and caused the public to associate Edison with the death of the inmate and hurt Morgan’s business. To try to run Morgan out of business, Tesla and his partner Westinghouse underbid Morgan on the Chicago fair that had 27 million people in attendance. This is the likely cause of why Westinghouse received the large and prestigious contract to power the Niagara grid that supplied power to most of the eastern United States. Morgan made a last minute power play and gave Westinghouse the choice between a large lawsuit that would result in his bankruptcy or the turning over of Tesla’s AC patents. Morgan received the patents and dropped Edison from his company and changed the name to General
He wrote several pieces in the papers painting the horrors of electricity and how deadly it truly was. He told false stories of deaths caused by the use of electricity in private homes. Rockefeller’s pieces began making the public weary of the use of electrical lighting. To try and make the public distrust AC electricity, Edison invented the electric chair for New York State Penitentiary and used Tesla’s AC generators. This backfired and caused the public to associate Edison with the death of the inmate and hurt Morgan’s business. To try to run Morgan out of business, Tesla and his partner Westinghouse underbid Morgan on the Chicago fair that had 27 million people in attendance. This is the likely cause of why Westinghouse received the large and prestigious contract to power the Niagara grid that supplied power to most of the eastern United States. Morgan made a last minute power play and gave Westinghouse the choice between a large lawsuit that would result in his bankruptcy or the turning over of Tesla’s AC patents. Morgan received the patents and dropped Edison from his company and changed the name to General