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In the final decades of the 19th century, three great and visionary titans of America's Gilded Time - Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse - battled as each vied to create a huge and powerful electric empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this amazing trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge knowledge, technology, intrigue, money, loss of life, and hard-eyed Wall Street millionaires. In the centre of the storyline are Thomas Alva Edison, the country's most well-known and folksy inventor, originator of the incandescent lamp and mastermind of the world's first immediate current electric light systems; the Serbian wizard of technology Nikola Tesla, an eccentric dreamer who revolutionized the era and delivery of electricity; and the charismatic George Westinghouse, Pittsburgh inventor and commercial entrepreneur, an industrial idealist who in the time of gaslight imagined a world powered by cheap and abundant electricity and worked heart and soul to make it. Empires of Light is the gripping background of electricity, the "mysterious fluid", and the way the fateful collision of Edison, Tesla, and Westinghouse remaining the world absolutely transformed.
