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#665567 in eBooks 2008-03-11 2008-03-11File Name: B008NBZ2ZG2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Jarring inconsistencyBy BlikoorI have not yet finished reading this, but permit me to jot some thoughts as I progress.I had this book in my wishlist for a long time now. With the gift of my Kindle Fire, I downloaded this as my inaugural Kindle book.The pre-history of electricity is long and torturous. I don't think it adds much to the overall discussion of the AC/DC "war".Then I encountered a jagged note, that smacks of poor proof-reading. TowardFrom Publishers WeeklyA little more than 100 years ago, two titans of industry faced off in one of the most vicious battles the marketplace had ever seen. On one side, Thomas Edison, inventor extraordinaire, the creator of the phonograph and the electric light; on the other, George Westinghouse, tycAC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict between technical standards, a battle of competing methods to deliver essentially the same product, electricity. But the skirmish soon metastasized into something bigger and darker. In the AC/DC battle, the wo...
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