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Author : Israel Smith Clare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : World history
ISBN : UOM:39015075011471
Author : Jill Jonnes
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375758843
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.
Author : John Ross MacDuff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600094847
Author : E. Phillips Oppenheim
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547325819
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Lighted Way" by E. Phillips Oppenheim. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : International Sunday School Lessons
ISBN : UCAL:$B53231
Author : Alice B. Van Doren
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547350613
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India" (A Study of Conditions among Women in India) by Alice B. Van Doren. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Jane Brox
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547487151
This “superb history” of artificial light traces the evolution of society—“invariably fascinating and often original . . . [it] amply lives up to its title” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In Brilliant, Jane Brox explores humankind’s ever-changing relationship to artificial light, from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. More than a survey of technological development, this sweeping history reveals how artificial light changed our world, and how those social and cultural changes in turn led to the pursuit of more ways of spreading, maintaining, and controlling light. Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn’t—through the centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She identifies the pursuit of whale oil as the first time the need for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world’s ecosystems. Edison’s bulbs produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox’s informative portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us. Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light
Author : Lewis Buzbee
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781458758347
In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Buzbee, a former bookseller and sales representative, celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore - the smell and touch of books, the joy of getting lost in the deep canyons of shelves, and the silent community of readers. He shares his passion for books, which began with ordering through the Weekly Reader i...
Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 14077 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547400103
George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. This edition includes: George MacDonald by Annie Matheson Fantasy Fiction: The Princess and the Goblin The Princess and Curdie Phantastes At the Back of the North Wind The Lost Princess: A Double Story The Day Boy and the Night Girl The Flight of the Shadow Lilith: A Romance Adela Cathcart The Portent and Other Stories Dealings with the Fairies Stephen Archer and Other Tales Realistic Fiction: David Elginbrod (The Tutor's First Love) Alec-Forbes of Howglen (The Maiden's Bequest) Robert Falconer (The Musician's Quest) Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood Wilfrid Cumbermede Gutta Percha Willie St. George and St. Michael Mary Marston (A Daughter's Devotion) Warlock o' Glenwarlock (The Laird's Inheritance) Weighed and Wanting (A Gentlewoman's Choice) What's Mine's Mine (The Highlander's Last Song) Home Again (The Poet's Homecoming) The Elect Lady (The Landlady's Master) A Rough Shaking Heather and Snow (The Peasant Girl's Dream) Salted with Fire (The Minister's Restoration) Far Above Rubies Malcolm The Marquis of Lossie (The Marquis' Secret) Sir Gibbie (The Baronet's Song) Donal Grant (The Shepherd's Castle) Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood The Seaboard Parish The Vicar's Daughter Thomas Wingfold, Curate (The Curate's Awakening) Paul Faber, Surgeon (The Lady's Confession) There and Back (The Baron's Apprenticeship) The Poetical Works of George MacDonald A Hidden Life and Other Poems A Book of Strife, in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul Rampolli: Growths from a Long-planted Root Theological Writings: Unspoken Sermons The Miracles of Our Lord The Hope of the Gospel ...
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029364622
Author : Doris Smith
Publisher : TEACH Services, Inc.
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Alaska
ISBN : 9781572585201
Have you ever lived so remote that the biggest event of the day was when the mail came? Have you longed for news from the outside world? Have you experienced the joy and excitement of finding that a friend or loved one was coming soon to your village or town? It is with great excitement that you count the days till the plane brings that special person. Sometimes they bring you something so precious that eternity won't be long enough to thank them. Now discover and experience all of these things as you read this book. The excitement of grandfather's dream that had the whole village asking "What can it mean?" and the amazement when Aunt Elsa shares the answers right from her Bible.--Mary Ratcliff, Cross Reflections Ministry There's nothing more inspirational than real life experiences. Lessons learned from the experiences of others are the most meaningful because they are so effective in helping us where we are actually at today. We Native people are visual - meaning we trust most in what we can actually see and touch. This is why this small book by Doris Smith is so powerful -- especially to some of us who have actually lived or visited in the villages and know the people Doris writes about. It's all real, it's all so true. Coupled with the fact that the teachings this true story experience brings out are so accurate makes this book very worthwhile reading. If you're looking for helpful information presented in an interesting way on subjects that will bring answers to many of life's spiritual questions that most people are asking today you will find this book a real blessing to your heart.--Monte Church, Native Ministries Northwest/Canada Director
Author : Rhoda Bolton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101076517315
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410342942
A Study Guide for Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Isaac PENINGTON (the Younger.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1653
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023044414
Author : Mary Abby Thaxter Peloubet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Bible
ISBN : NYPL:33433089976405
