About the Author
JILL JONNES is an author and historian with a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She has received awards from the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and lives with her family in Baltimore, Maryland.
Photograph Credits
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Photograph by George William Sheldon (attributed), from The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age, published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1883–84. Reprinted by Dover Publishers, 1987, p. 146.
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Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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Photograph by R. F. Outcault. Courtesy of the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Edison National Historic Site
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Courtesy of the Nikola Tesla Museum
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Copyright 2002, George Westinghouse Museum
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Courtesy of the New York Historical Society
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Courtesy of the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Edison National Historic Site
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Courtesy of the Cayuga Museum of History and Art
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Courtesy of the George Westinghouse Museum
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Photograph by G. Hunter Bartlett. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society
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Courtesy of the Niagara Falls Public Library
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Courtesy of Niagara Mohawk, National Grid USA Service Company, Inc.
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George Westinghouse, Courtesy of George Westinghouse Museum; Thomas Edison, courtesy of the Library of Congress; Nikola Tesla, courtesy of the Nikola Tesla Museum
Copyright © 2003 by Jill Jonnes
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jonnes, Jill
Empires of light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the race to electrify the world/Jill Jonnes.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Electric engineering—History. 2. Electrification—History. 3. Electric power—History. 4. Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847–1931. 5. Tesla, Nikola, 1856–1943. 6. Westinghouse, George, 1846–1914. 7. Competition—United States. I. Title.
TK18 .J66 2003 621.3'09—dc21 2002031866
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eISBN: 978-1-58836-000-7
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