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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

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—srikanth @ 09:49

Identify the people in A and B, and connect them with the object in C. The connect is a specific event in the history of science/technology

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And, as an additional clue (and to add some spice to the question):

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This is definitely not a “core CS” question :-)

Almost everyone who attempted identified A and B right, and came close to the connect. I’m going to be somewhat generous.

On the dot:
jayanth, Bikiran, udupendra, nihit, Archana and rishabh

Came really close:
devadutta, Shashank, Abhinav, Poornima, Bikiran, Anuj, sai_ganesh, karthik, Abhishek, bs, dingdong and yaksha

Abhinav(2), jayanth, Biki, udupendra, Shashank, nihit, Poornima, Biki, Anuj, sai_ganesh, karthik, Abhishek, Archana, bs, rishabh, dingdong and yaksha

Show Answer

(A) is Edison who was a proponent of DC. (B) is Nikola Tesla who advocated AC. AC had clear advantages over DC for distribution and usage, but Edison didn’t want to give up. The war of currents ensued. Edison set up a smear campaign against AC, including funding the development of (C), the electric chair that used AC, to prove AC was bad.