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Thomas Edison: Electric Dreams and the Dawn of a New Era

Author : ChatStick Team

Publisher : ChatStick Team

Page : 122 pages

File Size : 17,63 MB

Release : 2023-11-12

Category : Biography & Autobiography

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Discover the Enlightening Journey of Thomas Edison in "Thomas Edison: Electric Dreams and the Dawn of a New Era" Embark on a captivating odyssey through the life of Thomas Edison, one of history's most prodigious inventors, in the definitive Book "Thomas Edison: Electric Dreams and the Dawn of a New Era". This meticulously crafted narrative not only delves into Edison's remarkable array of inventions but also reflects on the profound impact his work has on our present-day world. Why This Book Is a Must-Read: Immersive Storytelling: Experience Edison's journey from a curious child to an inventor who shaped modern civilization. Revolutionary Inventions: Gain insight into the creation of the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb, early film technology, and more. Triumph & Turmoil: Explore the personal challenges and professional rivalries Edison faced, including his dynamic with contemporaries like Nikola Tesla. Legacy Unearthed: Uncover how Edison's innovations in communication, entertainment, and energy infrastructure have evolved and how they continue to influence us. Modern Relevance: Understand the present-day applications of Edison’s work in areas such as renewable energy, digital media, and global communication. Inspirational Message: Draw inspiration from Edison’s perseverance and vision, empowering readers to ignite their own "Electric Dreams." What You'll Discover Inside: A fresh perspective on Edison's early sparks of genius and how his youthful curiosity became the catalyst for a lifetime of groundbreaking achievements. The drama of the "Current Wars," a battle of innovation that revolutionized the way we use energy. The echoes of Edison’s dreams in today’s technological marvels and their role in shaping the future. The lasting essence of Edison's ambitions in the new era, proving that his legacy is not just historical but a continuous source of inspiration. Perfect for Readers Who: Are enthusiasts of history, technology, and innovation. Seek motivation from the lives of great inventors and thinkers. Enjoy biographies that offer both depth of knowledge and engaging storytelling. Appreciate the intersection of past innovation and future technology. Join us on a journey through time, illuminated by the brilliant life and enduring dreams of Thomas Edison. Witness how his electric vision lit up the world and continues to shine in our modern age. Get your copy of "Thomas Edison: Electric Dreams and the Dawn of a New Era" and let the light of Edison's story brighten the path to your own dreams!



Edison

Author : Edmund Morris

Publisher :

Page : 801 pages

File Size : 28,64 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 081299311X

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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography ofThomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.



AC/DC

Author : Tom McNichol

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 187 pages

File Size : 34,82 MB

Release : 2011-01-06

Category : Science

ISBN : 1118047028

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AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict between technical standards, a battle of competing methods to deliver essentially the same product, electricity. But the skirmish soon metastasized into something bigger and darker. In the AC/DC battle, the worst aspects of human nature somehow got caught up in the wires; a silent, deadly flow of arrogance, vanity, and cruelty. Following the path of least resistance, the war of currents soon settled around that most primal of human emotions: fear. AC/DC serves as an object lesson in bad business strategy and poor decision making. Edison's inability to see his mistake was a key factor in his loss of control over the ?operating system? for his future inventions?not to mention the company he founded, General Electric.



The Last Days of Night

Author : Graham Moore

Publisher : Random House

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 41,20 MB

Release : 2016-08-16

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0812988914

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A world of invention and skulduggery, populated by the likes of Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla.”—Erik Larson “A model of superior historical fiction . . . an exciting, sometimes astonishing story.”—The Washington Post From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, comes a thrilling novel—based on actual events—about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history—and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul’s client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country? The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society—the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions, and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. The task facing him is beyond daunting. Edison is a wily, dangerous opponent with vast resources at his disposal—private spies, newspapers in his pocket, and the backing of J. P. Morgan himself. Yet this unknown lawyer shares with his famous adversary a compulsion to win at all costs. How will he do it? In obsessive pursuit of victory, Paul crosses paths with Nikola Tesla, an eccentric, brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison, and with Agnes Huntington, a beautiful opera singer who proves to be a flawless performer on stage and off. As Paul takes greater and greater risks, he’ll find that everyone in his path is playing their own game, and no one is quite who they seem. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER “A satisfying romp . . . Takes place against a backdrop rich with period detail . . . Works wonderfully as an entertainment . . . As it charges forward, the novel leaves no dot unconnected.”—Noah Hawley, The New York Times Book Review



Networks of Power

Author : Thomas Parke Hughes

Publisher : JHU Press

Page : 492 pages

File Size : 41,91 MB

Release : 1993-03

Category : Science

ISBN : 9780801846144

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Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, this book offers a comparative history of the evolution of modern electric power systems. It described large-scale technological change and demonstrates that technology cannot be understood unless placed in a cultural context.



The Hunt for History

Author : Nathan Raab

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 43,56 MB

Release : 2020-03-10

Category : History

ISBN : 1501198920

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Nathan Raab, America’s preeminent rare documents dealer, delivers a “diverting account of treasure hunting in the fast lane” (The Wall Street Journal) that recounts his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts, questing after precious finds and determining their authenticity. A box uncovered in a Maine attic with twenty letters written by Alexander Hamilton; a handheld address to Congress by President George Washington; a long-lost Gold Medal that belonged to an American President; a note that Winston Churchill wrote to his captor when he was a young POW in South Africa; paperwork signed and filled out by Amelia Earhart when she became the first woman to fly the Atlantic; an American flag carried to the moon and back by Neil Armstrong; an unpublished letter written by Albert Einstein, discussing his theory of relativity. Each day, people from all over the world contact Nathan Raab for help understanding what they have, what it might be worth, and how to sell it. The Raab Collection’s president, Nathan is a modern-day treasure hunter and one of the world’s most prominent dealers of historical artifacts. Most weeks, he travels the country, scours auctions, or fields phone calls and emails from people who think they may have found something of note in a grandparent’s attic. In The Hunt for History, “Raab takes us on a wild hunt and deliciously opens up numerous hidden crevices of history” (Jay Winik, author of April 1865)—spotting a letter from British officials that secured the Rosetta Stone; discovering a piece of the first electric cable laid by Edison; restoring a fragmented letter from Andrew Jackson that led to the infamous Trail of Tears; and locating copies of missing audio that had been recorded on Air Force One as the plane brought JFK’s body back to Washington. Whether it’s the first report of Napoleon’s death or an unpublished letter penned by Albert Einstein to a curious soldier, every document and artifact Raab uncovers comes with a spellbinding story—and often offers new insights into a life we thought we knew.



Empires of Light

Author : Jill Jonnes

Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks

Page : 466 pages

File Size : 19,32 MB

Release : 2004-10-12

Category : History

ISBN : 0375758844

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The 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.



When Old Technologies Were New

Author : Carolyn Marvin

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 294 pages

File Size : 47,57 MB

Release : 1990-05-24

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0198021380

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In the history of electronic communication, the last quarter of the nineteenth century holds a special place, for it was during this period that the telephone, phonograph, electric light, wireless, and cinema were all invented. In When old Technologies Were New, Carolyn Marvin explores how two of these new inventions--the telephone and the electric light--were publicly envisioned at the end of the nineteenth century, as seen in specialized engineering journals and popular media. Marvin pays particular attention to the telephone, describing how it disrupted established social relations, unsettling customary ways of dividing the private person and family from the more public setting of the community. On the lighter side, she describes how people spoke louder when calling long distance, and how they worried about catching contagious diseases over the phone. A particularly powerful chapter deals with telephonic precursors of radio broadcasting--the "Telephone Herald" in New York and the "Telefon Hirmondo" of Hungary--and the conflict between the technological development of broadcasting and the attempt to impose a homogenous, ethnocentric variant of Anglo-Saxon culture on the public. While focusing on the way professionals in the electronics field tried to control the new media, Marvin also illuminates the broader social impact, presenting a wide-ranging, informative, and entertaining account of the early years of electronic media.



Passion of the Western Mind

Author : Richard Tarnas

Publisher : Ballantine Books

Page : 560 pages

File Size : 40,4 MB

Release : 2011-10-19

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0307804526

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"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.



The Age of Edison

Author : Ernest Freeberg

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 23,38 MB

Release : 2014-01-28

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0143124447

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A 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.