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Tuesday, March 6. 2018

Compelling book


Historical fiction (I still do not know how much of it is historically accurate) about the legal and commercial battles between Westinghouse and Edison during New York's Gilded Age: The Last Days of Night: A Novel by Graham Moore. (The youthful Moore has made quite a varied writing career for himself.)


I do know that Paul Cravath played a major role in the battles, and that Westinghouse promoted alternating current while Edison preferred DC.  A good story with mythic underpinnings.

Posted by The Barrister at 15:49 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Nikola Tesla was the science wizard behind the ac promoted by Westinghouse. The battles between Tesla and Edison make for good reading. Edison got all the press but Tesla was no less important. We pretty much owe our current wireless world to Tesla.
#1 rocdoctom on 2018-03-06 17:22 (Reply)
I don't understand anyone would read a fictional accounting of a a historical event when there are probably hundreds of very well written non-fiction books that cover it.
#2 FRP on 2018-03-06 19:29 (Reply)
One of the problems the promoters of AC had was that nobody really understood AC until Steinmetz finally figured it out. AC just did not work like DC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz.
#3 Ray on 2018-03-07 13:54 (Reply)

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