The Short Life of the Electric Light Bulb
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities Subcommittee
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 76
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities Subcommittee
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Government Operations
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ernest Freeberg
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-01-28
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0143124447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
Author: Chris Oxlade
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2011-07
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1432948806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the history of artificial lighting and the invention of the light bulb.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 1200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert P. Rogers
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 1108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 206
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jill Jonnes
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2004-10-12
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0375758844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe gripping history of electricity and how the fateful collision of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed. 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. Edison struggled to introduce his radical new direct current (DC) technology into the hurly-burly of New York City as Tesla and Westinghouse challenged his dominance with their alternating current (AC), thus setting the stage for one of the eeriest feuds in American corporate history, the War of the Electric Currents. The battlegrounds: Wall Street, the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Niagara Falls, and, finally, the death chamber—Jonnes takes us on the tense walk down a prison hallway and into the sunlit room where William Kemmler, convicted ax murderer, became the first man to die in the electric chair.