Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World (Audiobook)

from MM_Jones

Fascinating account of the travails of bringing electricity into modern life. Thomas Edison, the legendarily stubborn folksy inventor, Nikola Tesla, the true electrical genius, and George Westinghouse, the far sighted business mogul, all dreamed of spreading the power of electricity throughout th...

from cyderry

Electricity - something that is much in the news lately thanks to Superstorm Sandy and the impact of power outages in the Northeast, but over one hundred years ago, during the final decades of the19th century, three visionaries fought over the world and how it should be electrified. The most famo...

from lisahistory

Written like a novel with much supposition, it nevertheless has enough to give a historian an idea what was going on.

from fhudnell

This was the story of Thomas Alva Edison, George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla , who collectively and individually did so much to change the economic and physical conditions of everyone in the world. About a year ago I read a novel about these three individuals. It incorporated factual events but...

from pineapplejuggler

A very well researched and written historical novel. Reads like a fast-moving, suspenseful fiction piece. Only complaints: paragraphs could get pretty long and I really, really wish there were more diagrams. There were some really basic ones at the beginning, but it would have been cool had they ...