Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World, Jill Jonnes
An extremely detailed and engaging book on how electricity was brought to the United States.
An extremely detailed and engaging book on how electricity was brought to the United States.
The impression that I got from Empires of Light is that Tesla's "research" needed a lot of "design" by Westinghouse's engineers before they could be turned into practical, working designs.
That makes sense at some level, but I'd love to read other perspectives.