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The power makers : steam, electricity, and the men who invented modern America / Maury Klein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klein, Maury, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inventions--United States--History.
- Inventions.
- Force and energy.
- History.
- United States.
- Inventors--United States--Biography.
- Inventors.
- Force and energy--United States--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 543 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Press : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, [2008]
- Contents:
- Prologue: A Show of Power: Philadelphia 1876 1
- 1 The Machine That Changed the World 14
- 2 Conquering the Waters 30
- 3 The Greatest Engine of All 51
- 4 In Search of the Mysterious Ether 71
- 5 Let There Be Light 98
- 6 A Covey of Competitors 118
- 7 The Light Dawns 136
- 8 The Pearl Street System 159
- 9 The Cowbird, the Plugger, and the Dreamer 177
- 10 The Alternative System 201
- 11 Eventful Currents 219
- 12 Gaining Traction 239
- 13 Competition and Electrocution 256
- 14 Money, Mergers, and Motors 279
- 15 A Show of Lights: Chicago 1893 300
- 16 The Niagara Fallout 324
- 17 Hard Times 345
- 18 The Future Arrives 366
- 19 Mastering the Mysteries of Distribution 395
- 20 The Empire of Energy 417
- Epilogue: A Show of Possibilities: New York 1939 444
- Electrical Circuits 453.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [511]-520) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781596914124
- 1596914122
- OCLC:
- 182621506
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