Thomas A. Edison Quotes

I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.

Thomas A. Edison

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• I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Consistently
  • Opposed
  • High-tension