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TF and I were watching an old PBS documentary about Nikola Tesla last night, and the Exposition was prominently featured since it was his AC power system that was used to light it. It pissed off Edison so bad, that the company he recently formed with other rich guys, General Electric, refused to sell their sealed light bulbs for use there, so Westinghouse (who was Tesla's biggest ally and financier) invented their own two piece bulb to use, thus avoiding patent violations.
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