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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Jonnes, Jill, 1952-     Subjects     Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.     Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.     Westinghouse, George, 1846-1914.     Electrical engineering -- History.     Electrification -- History.     Electric power -- History.     Competition -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jonnes, Jill, 1952-       by title:      Empires of light : E...         MARC Display

Empires of light : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the race to electrify the world / Jill Jonnes. by Jonnes, Jill, 1952- New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004. Subjects Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.   Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.   Westinghouse, George, 1846-1914.   Electrical engineering -- History.   Electrification -- History.   Electric power -- History.   Competition -- United States. ISBN:  0375758844 (paperback) : 9780375758843 (paperback) Description:  xiv, 424 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm Edition:  Random House Trade paperback ed. Contents:  "Morgan's house was lighted up last night" -- "Endeavor to make it useful" -- Thomas Edison : "The wizard of Menlo Park" -- Nikola Tesla : "Our parisian" -- George Westinghouse : " He is ubiquitous" -- Edison declares war -- "Constant danger from sudden death" -- "The horrible experiment" -- 1891 : "Fear everywhere of worse to come" -- The world's fair : "The electrician's ideal city" -- Niagara power : "What a fall of bright-green water!" -- "Yoked to the cataract!" -- Afterward. Requests:  0 Summary:  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 cheap and plentiful electricity and worked heart and soul to create it.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 621.309 Jonnes Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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