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War of Currents

电流战争

Tesla's alternating current work put him firmly on the "AC" side of the so-called "War of Currents," an electrical standards battle waged between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse.

所谓的“电流战争”是在托马斯爱迪生和乔治威斯汀豪斯之间展开的关于使用哪一种电气标准的战斗,特斯拉的交流电研发工作使他坚定地站在“交流电”阵营这一边。

Tesla's patents, along with the others that Westinghouse's company had acquired or developed, allowed Westinghouse to build a rival AC system that could compete with Thomas Edison's DC system.

特斯拉的专利加上西屋的公司收购或开发的其他的专利,让西屋公司有能力来建造一个交流系统使之与托马斯•爱迪生的直流系统竞争。

In 1893, George Westinghouse won the bid to electrify the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago with alternating current, beating out a bid by Edison to electrify the fair with direct current.

1893年,在芝加哥举办的哥伦比亚世界博览会的会场供电招标中，乔治威斯汀豪斯的交流电击败了爱迪生的直流电而中标。

This World's Fair devoted a building to electrical exhibits.

这届世博会的主办方致力于将其举办成一个电气展览会。

It was a key event in the history of AC power, as Westinghouse demonstrated the safety, reliability, and efficiency of alternating current to the American public.

这是交流电历史中的一个关键事件,即西屋公司在这一届世博会上向美国公众展示了交流电的安全、可靠和高效。

At the Columbian Exposition, Tesla demonstrated a series of electrical effects previously performed throughout America and Europe,:76 included using high-voltage, high-frequency alternating current to light a wireless gas-discharge lamp.

在哥伦比亚博览会上,特斯拉演示了此前在美国和欧洲进行过的一系列交流电演示,包括使用高压、高频交流电以无线输电的方式点亮一盏气体放电灯。

:79 An observer noted:

:79一个观察者描述道:

Within the room was suspended two hard-rubber plates covered with tin foil.

在房间内放着两块静止的覆盖着锡纸的硬橡胶板。

These were about fifteen feet apart, and served as terminals of the wires leading from the transformers.

它们相距大约15英尺,电线的一端连接在上面，另一端连接变压器。

When the current was turned on, the lamps or tubes, which had no wires connected to them, but lay on a table between the suspended plates, or which might be held in the hand in almost any part of the room, were made luminous.

当电流接通的时候, 放在静止板块之间的桌子上的没有电线连接的灯或电子管开始发光,即使将它们拿在手里或移到房间的任何一个地方,它们也都可以发光。

These were the same experiments and the same apparatus shown by Tesla in London about two years previous, "where they produced so much wonder and astonishment".

这些实验和仪器是特斯拉大约两年之前在伦敦就演示过的,在那里“他们（对此）极为惊讶”。