Book
The electric war : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the race to light the world
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2019.
Physical Description
260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Audience
Ages 12-14.
Summary
"The riveting nonfiction account of the scientific competition to light the world with electricity."--
Notes
"Christy Ottaviano Books."
Contents
- The calm before the storm
- The first spark
- What's good for the goose
- A wizard is born
- AC/DC, a current craze
- Flashes of light
- What's mine is yours
- Meeting of the minds
- Earned success
- The rabid animal vs. the fawn in the forest
- Death in the wires
- Shocked
- To death
- In Kemmler's wake
- All the world's a stage
- One rises, one falls
- After the storm (an epilogue).
Subjects
- Electrification > History > Juvenile literature.
- Electric power > History > Juvenile literature.
- Electrical engineering > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
- Lighting > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
- Inventors > United States > Juvenile literature.
- Electrification.
- Electric power.
- Electrical engineering.
- Lighting.
- Inventors.
- Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 > Juvenile literature.
- Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943 > Juvenile literature.
- Westinghouse, George, 1846-1914 > Juvenile literature.
- Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.
- Tesla, Nikola, 1856-1943.
- Westinghouse, George, 1846-1914.