Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes

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

Jill Jonnes

432 pages hardcover 2003

6 editions

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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 Emp...

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