Topsy the elephant (Edison was a jackass)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_the_Elephant
War of current (Fallout with Tesla, Edison was a jackass)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison#War_of_Currents_era
High-voltage DC transmission is quite fascinating...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC
The Pacific Intertie which runs south from Celilo, through eastern oregon is one of the larger dc transmission lines in the US...
http://www.transmission.bpa.gov/cigresc14/Compendium/PACIFIC.htm
The modern AC-DC transformers for these things are actually solid-state silicon semi-conductor devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGBT
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