The electric war : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the race to light the world [eAudiobook - hoopla]

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The electric war : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the race to light the world

(2019)

By: Winchell, Mike

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED

[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC, 2019
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Unabridged

DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 34 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN

9781974932382 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT12287838, 1974932389 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 12287838

LANGUAGE

English

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Read by Greg Tremblay

In the mid- to late-nineteenth century, a burgeoning science called electricity promised to shine new light on a rousing nation. Inventive and ambitious minds were hard at work. Soon that spark was fanned, and a fiery war was under way to be the first to light, and runє the world with electricity. Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of direct current (DC), engaged in a brutal battle with Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, the inventors of alternating current (AC). There would be no ties in this raceє only a winner and a loserє and the prize was a nationwide monopoly in electric current. Brimming with action, suspense, and rich historical information, this rousing account reveals the true story behind one of the world's defining scientific competitions

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