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Harold P. Brown, a Common card
Harold Pitney Brown was an American electrical engineer and inventor known for his activism in the late 1880s against the use of alternating current for electric lighting in New York City and around the country.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 31
- Power
- 91
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,500
Power 91 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 35 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Brown was mostly self-educated, working for several companies in the fledgling electrical field before striking out on his own, working on his own inventions as well as hiring himself out as a consultant.
- After several deaths were caused by the high voltages used in alternating current arc lighting systems in New York City, Brown came to prominence in June 1888, claiming in the press and then in public meetings that AC was more deadly than direct current and that the arc lighting companies were cutting corners and using AC to save money at the cost of public safety.
- He conducted public demonstrations then lobbied around the country trying to limit AC transmission line voltages to 300 volts, tactics which had him using the press to directly attack the country's largest AC equipment manufacturer, Westinghouse Electric.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Harold P. Brown article was read about 4,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 31: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Harold P. Brown (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.