Edison anticipated dire results from its hurried
introduction:
Just certain death Westinghouse will kill a
customer within six months after puts system any
size.V-24
dangerous. Here the Edison laboratory played its major role. has got new thing and will take great deal of
experimenting get working practically. The immediate task the Edison enterprise was to
distance itself from the alternating current technology, and
the companies marketing it, and educate the public about its
dangers. 9
The great fear the Edison interests was that major
disaster involving alternating current would harm the whole
electrical industry and produce backlash legislation and
fear that would hinder, even stop, the spread electrical
technology. It
stood behind the claim that Edison's was the "safest, most
convenient, most efficient" lighting system, and "the only one
that not absolutely injurious the health the people
using it. will never be
free danger." 40
