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Again and again the US-only narrative. First modern long-range three-wire three-phase transmission was implemented by Dobrovolsky in Germany. Tesla invented and

by rini17 3y ago

Again and again the US-only narrative. First modern long-range three-wire three-phase transmission was implemented by Dobrovolsky in Germany. Tesla invented and advertised his 6-wire system at first.

lloydatkinson 3y ago
It’s unfortunate how much everything is America centric. Even in tiny details, such as Office and Teams defaulting to American instead of English even when installed on a Windows PC set to UK.
- NeoTar 3y ago
  And printers defaulting to ‘letter’ sized paper (rather than A4) no matter where in the world you seem to be!
- greggsy 3y ago
  It's a problem in Australia too, but I firmly believe that's just an oversight which has been de-prioritised in favour of other junk, rather than an imaginary attempt to export some form of linguistic imperialism.
- blooalien 3y ago
  The issue re; Office and Teams is likely simply due to Microsoft being a U.S.A. based company. Many corporations here sadly believe themselves to be the "center of their Universe" and forget about everywhere and everyone else, even when they do business world-wide, or run a business that somehow affects everyone. There's also a long-standing issue with many software developers (especially in corporate environments) not considering issues of "accessibility" by people outside their "local norm" until they're forced to consider the issue. We also have a highly "xenophobic" subset of our population that contribute somewhat to "foreign" language issues as well (which is quite odd, considering how much of our population consists of "immigrants" or the descendants thereof; nearly all of us?), being that we're supposedly "the Great Melting Pot" nation here, as well as being a popular "tourist" destination.
  - lloydatkinson 3y ago
    That's simply not the case. Windows is perfectly capable of telling software what locale, language, and keyboard it's supposed to use. It's sheer laziness.
lqet 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Dolivo-Dobrovolsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Dolivo-Dobrovolsky https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drehstrom%C3%BCbertragung_Lauffen%E2%80%93Frankfurt https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drehstrom%C3%BCbertragung_Lauf...
emjoes1 3y ago
Why would this story not be. It is described as "America's transmission story".
- blooalien 3y ago
  They're probably mostly bothered by the title of the article not making it clear "up-front" that it's a U.S.A.-centric article. If the title were "The Birth of the American Grid" or somesuch, they likely would not have had a complaint about it.

by rini17 3y ago

Again and again the US-only narrative. First modern long-range three-wire three-phase transmission was implemented by Dobrovolsky in Germany. Tesla invented and advertised his 6-wire system at first.

lloydatkinson 3y ago

It’s unfortunate how much everything is America centric. Even in tiny details, such as Office and Teams defaulting to American instead of English even when installed on a Windows PC set to UK.

NeoTar 3y ago
And printers defaulting to ‘letter’ sized paper (rather than A4) no matter where in the world you seem to be!
greggsy 3y ago
It's a problem in Australia too, but I firmly believe that's just an oversight which has been de-prioritised in favour of other junk, rather than an imaginary attempt to export some form of linguistic imperialism.
blooalien 3y ago
The issue re; Office and Teams is likely simply due to Microsoft being a U.S.A. based company. Many corporations here sadly believe themselves to be the "center of their Universe" and forget about everywhere and everyone else, even when they do business world-wide, or run a business that somehow affects everyone. There's also a long-standing issue with many software developers (especially in corporate environments) not considering issues of "accessibility" by people outside their "local norm" until they're forced to consider the issue. We also have a highly "xenophobic" subset of our population that contribute somewhat to "foreign" language issues as well (which is quite odd, considering how much of our population consists of "immigrants" or the descendants thereof; nearly all of us?), being that we're supposedly "the Great Melting Pot" nation here, as well as being a popular "tourist" destination.
- lloydatkinson 3y ago
  That's simply not the case. Windows is perfectly capable of telling software what locale, language, and keyboard it's supposed to use. It's sheer laziness.

lqet 3y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Dolivo-Dobrovolsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Dolivo-Dobrovolsky https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drehstrom%C3%BCbertragung_Lauffen%E2%80%93Frankfurt https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drehstrom%C3%BCbertragung_Lauf...

emjoes1 3y ago

Why would this story not be. It is described as "America's transmission story".

blooalien 3y ago
They're probably mostly bothered by the title of the article not making it clear "up-front" that it's a U.S.A.-centric article. If the title were "The Birth of the American Grid" or somesuch, they likely would not have had a complaint about it.