Empires of Light
Subtitle: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: October 12, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780375758843
First sentence: In the late spring of 1882, Thomas Alva Edison, world famous as the folksy genius who had invented the improved telegraph and telephone, the amazing talking phonograph, and the incandescent light bulb, would shamble in occasionally to the hushed, formal suites of Drexel, Morgan &amp; Company at 23 Wall Street, an imposing white marble Renaissance palace of mammon.