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 c…
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