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The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
The Power Makers Steam Electricity and the Men Who Invented Modern America
Author: Maury Klein
The dramatic story of the ?power revolution? that turned America from an agrarian society into a technological superpower, and the dynamic, fiercely  competitive inventors and entrepreneurs who made it happen?a riveting historical saga to rival McCullough?s The Great Bridge or Larson?s Thunderstruck. — Maury Klein, author of Rain...  more », is one of America?s most acclaimed historians of business and industry. In The Power Makers, he offers an epic narrative of his greatest subject yet?the ?power revolution? that transformed American life in the course of the nineteenth century.

The steam engine, the incandescent bulb, the electric motor?inventions such as these replaced backbreaking toil with machine labor and changed every aspect of daily life in the span of a few generations. The power revolution is not a tale of machines, however, but of men: inventors such as James Watt, Elihu Thomson, and Nikola Tesla; entrepreneurs such as George Westinghouse; savvy businessmen such as J.P. Morgan, Samuel Insull, and Charles Coffin of General Electric. Striding among them like a colossus is the figure of Thomas Edison, who was creative genius and business visionary at once. With consummate skill, Klein recreates their discoveries, their stunning triumphs and frequent failures, and their unceasing, tumultuous, and ferocious battles in the marketplace.

In Klein?s hands, their personalities and discoveries leap off the page. The Power Makers is a dazzling saga of inspired invention, dogged persistence, and  business competition at its most naked and cutthroat?a tale of America in its most astonishing decades.
ISBN-13: 9781596914124
ISBN-10: 1596914122
Publication Date: 5/27/2008
Pages: 560
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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