Books Details
Author : Jill Jonnes Pages : pages Publisher : Tantor Audio Language : eng
ISBN-10 : B01NBYH2WP ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and
visionary titans of America?s Gilded Age?Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and
George Westinghouse?battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and
powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes
portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of
cutting-edge science, invention, intrigue, money, death, and hard-eyed
Wall Street millionaires. At the heart of the story are Thomas Alva
Edison, the nation?s most famous and folksy inventor, creator of the
incandescent light bulb and mastermind of the world?s first direct
current electrical light networks; the Serbian wizard of invention Nikola
Tesla, elegant, highly eccentric, a dreamer who revolutionized the
generation and delivery of electricity; and the charismatic George
Westinghouse, Pittsburgh inventor and tough corporate entrepreneur, an
industrial idealist who in the era of gaslight imagined a world powered by
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