Nikola was beside himself with excitement.
In 1893, George Westinghouse won the bid to light the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago with alternating current. He won the bid against the General Electric bid by one million dollars.
At this World's Fair one entire building was devoted to electrical exhibits.
This was so important to Nicola....... a key event in the history of AC power.
Mr. Westinghouse was determined to demonstrated the safety, reliability, and efficiency of a fully integrated alternating current system to the American public.
Nikola demonstrated a series of electrical effects which were performed throughout America and Europe, including using his invention of alternating current to light a wireless gas-discharge lamp.
The next day I picked up a newspaper which spoke about the event in graphic details. I rushed home to show the article to Nikola. As I prepared our dinner he read the article to me.
He was overjoyed as he read,
"Within the room was suspended two hard-rubber plates covered with tin foil. These were about fifteen feet apart, and served as terminals of the wires leading from the transformers. When the current was turned on, the lamps or tubes, which had no wires connected to them, but lay on a table between the suspended plates, or which might be held in the hand in almost any part of the room, were made luminous.
"These were the same experiments and the same apparatus that I showed in London about two years ago. Remember Darling? Everyone was in wonder and astonishment."
We were thrilled and felt we were getting somewhere.
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NOT EDISON
Non-FictionThis novel is based on a true story. The true story about the light bulb! Let me tell you about the love of my heart. A hero by most people's standards. The world should have loved him as much as I do. But they didn't. He deserved it.
