Why Europe uses 240V at 50Hz but America uses 120V at 60Hx
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Not a technology question, this is a history question. It’s really hard to change electricity format once you have a bunch of users. If they have to throw out all their appliances and buy new ones, you have a “villagers with pitchforks” moment.
Europe and America were days away by steamship, nobody would ever carry an electrical appliance with them on travel, there was absolutely no reason for them to have the same format, or voltage, or plug shape, or … . Skip ahead to today, when everybody carries electronic gadgets with them everywhere – Well the folks in the 1880s got it wrong. Alas, they’ve been dead for centuries so they “got away with a mistake”.
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