Empires Of Light
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
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 electri…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-375-75884-3
- EAN: 9780375758843
- Produktnummer: 19436933
- Verlag: Random House USA Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Masse: H13.4 cm x B20.3 cm x D2.7 cm 346 g
- Auflage: Rh Trade PB ed
- Abbildungen: Illustrations, unspecified
- Gewicht: 346
Über den Autor
Jill Jonnes is an author and historian with a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She has received awards from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is the author of South Bronx Rising and Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams. She lives with her family in Baltimore, Maryland.
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