Elect!cs race

We begin our story with a young immigrant

named Nikola Tesla.

Tesla was from a small country known as

Croatia

Tesla's biggest rival was Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb. Both Tesla and

Edison were incredibly intelligent.

Tesla and Edison both had different thoughts on how electricity should power appliances. Edison wanted direct current, while Tesla

wanted alternating current.

Thomas Edison had his own company, which

was traded on the stock exchange.

While Tesla was backed by westinghouse

electrics.

Since both companies were traded on the stock market, people could essentially buy

parts of the companies.

This meant that the people could help decide what type of electricity would be used, simply

by purchasing stock in the companies

With so many people buying and selling

stock, the companies whose stock they were buying, were making money.

With so much money flowing into the

companies, they could spread their ideas, and expand their production.

In the end Tesla won the battle, and now

virtually all electricity used by americans is alternating current.

"e end.