@玖天狱 @饺子踮脚望孤山

In 1888, the editor of Electrical World magazine, Thomas Commerford Martin (a friend and publicist), arranged for Tesla to demonstrate his alternating current system, including his induction motor, at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (now IEEE).

1888年,电子世界杂志的主编,托马斯•康墨福德•马丁(也是特斯拉的朋友和公关),安排特斯拉在美国电气工程师学会(IEEE)展示他的包括感应电动机在内的交流电系统, ,。

Engineers working for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company reported to George Westinghouse that Tesla had a viable AC motor and related power system—something that Westinghouse had been trying to secure the patents to.

• 西屋公司的工程师向乔治•威斯汀豪斯汇报说,特斯拉演示了一个实用的交流电动机及相关的电力系统,这正是西屋一直试图获得其专利的发明。

Westinghouse looked into getting a patent on a similar commutatorless rotating magnetic field based induction motor presented in a paper in March 1888 by the Italian physicist Galileo Ferraris but decided Tesla's patent would probably control the market.:160–162

威斯汀豪斯期望获得此类无换向器的基于旋转磁场的感应电动机的专利，这种电机是意大利物理学家加利莱奥•费拉里斯在1888年3月的一篇论文中提出的,但特斯拉的专利真正使其实用化并投入市场。:160 - 162(46)

In July 1888, Brown and Peck negotiated a licensing deal with George Westinghouse for Tesla's polyphase induction motor and transformer designs for $60,000 in cash and stock and a royalty of $2.50 per AC horsepower produced by each motor.

1888年7月,布朗和派克就授权使用特斯拉设计的多相感应电动机和变压器的事宜与乔治•威斯汀豪斯进行了谈判，结果以价值60000美元的现金和股票以及为每台电动机产生的每马力功率支付2.50美元的专利费成交。

Westinghouse also hired Tesla for one year for the large fee of $2,000 ($52,500 in today's dollars) per month to be a consultant at the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company's Pittsburgh labs.

西屋公司还以每月2000美元(相当于今天52500美元)的高薪聘请特斯拉在匹兹堡西屋电气&制造公司的实验室担任了一年顾问。

During that year, Tesla worked in Pittsburgh, helping to create an alternating current system to power the city's streetcars.

在那一年,特斯拉在匹兹堡致力于创建一个为城市有轨电车供电的交流电系统。

He found the time there frustrating because of conflicts between him and the other Westinghouse engineers over how best to implement AC power.

他对这段时间的工作感到沮丧,因为他和其他西屋电气的工程师们在如何提升交流电系统上产生了冲突。

Between them, they settled on a 60-cycle AC current system Tesla proposed (to match the working frequency of Tesla's motor), although they soon found that, since Tesla's induction motor could only run at a constant speed, it would not work for street cars.

经过特斯拉与那些工程师之间的协调,最后他们采用了特斯拉提出的60赫兹的交流电系统 (与特斯拉的电机的工作频率相匹配),尽管他们很快发现,特斯拉的感应电动机只能以恒定的速度运行,它不能应用在有轨电车上。

They ended up using a DC traction motor instead.

他们最终使用了直流牵引电动机而非特斯拉的感应电动机。