The electric war Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the race to light the world
Recounts the scientific competition in the United States for the dominant electric current between Thomas Alva Edison's direct current, and Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse⁰́₉s alternating current.
| Main Author: | Winchell, Mike (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Henry Holt and Company,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The calm before the storm
- The first spark
- What's good for the goose
- A wizard is born
- AC/DC, a current craze
- Flashes of light
- What's mine is yours
- Meeting of the minds
- Earned success
- The rabid animal versus the fawn in the forest
- Death in the wires
- Shocked...
- ...To death
- In Kemmler's wake
- All the world's a stage
- One rises, one falls.