Nikola Tesla

“ I cannot deny that you are right.
⁠Nearly four million horse power of waterfalls are harnessed by my alternating current system of transmission, which is like saying that one hundred million men-untiring, consuming nothing, receiving no pay-are laboring to provide for our wants, incidentally saving the waste of one hundred million tons of coal annually. ”

“ In this great city the elevated roads, the subways, and the street railways are operated by my system, and the lamps and other electrical appliances get the current through machinery of my invention. And as in New York so all the world over where electricity is introduced. The telephone and the incandescent lamp fill specific and minor demands, electric power meets the many general and sterner necessities of life. ”