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Thesis With one discovery, a person can spark a debate, like Nikola Tesla, whose groundbreaking use of alternating current (AC) technology sparked the War of the Currents in the late 1880s. Its weapons were powerful words hurled at each other by supporters of two very different currents: Thomas Edison for direct current (DC), and George Westinghouse, AC's patron. Ultimately AC's success and DC's failure profoundly altered America's future by electrifying households across America and sparking another industrial revolution.
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Nate Calabrese and Clive Chan, Junior Division Website