
Empires of Light
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
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Narrado por:
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Chris Sorensen
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Jill Jonnes
In the final decades of the 19th century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America's Gilded Age - Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse - battled 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, an eccentric dreamer who revolutionized the generation and delivery of electricity; and the charismatic George Westinghouse, Pittsburgh inventor and 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. Empires of Light is the gripping history of electricity, the "mysterious fluid", and how the fateful collision of Edison, Tesla, and Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed.
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Little different than expected
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great book, poor narration
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The narration is a different matter. It reminded me of the Seinfeld episode when George despairs of the irritating books on tape narrator and his whiny, nasaly monotone. That would also describe this narrator. The best idea came from another reviewer who suggested speeding up the narration. After trial and error, I found 1.2X speed to be the most palatable. Not great but acceptable.
Play at 1.2X speed
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Interesting research and story, bad narrator.
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The narrator of the audiobook has a voice that, to me, resembles Keith Morrison on Dateline - the tone and cadence of an undertaker that continually suggests something awful is about to happen but there's nothing that can be done about it (if there's an English or foreign language word for this, please advise). He (Chris Sorenson) has apparently narrated some 240 other audiobooks, so he must have an audience, but I am not a fan. I tried speeding up and slowing down the audio and it didn't help.
Great historical drama; offputting narrator
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the story is one of any startup, only 100+ years before the term was coined..
a story of giants, who's legacy literally lives on
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wonderful book if you can tolerate the narration
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Shocking
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The downside of such a detailed book is that it is very long and the story moves slowly. Also, IMO the author is a little too worshipping of individual inventors, when in truth a lot more people contributed to the technological progress of the time. Apart from that, it is a great read and very engaging. one gets to learn about the lives and personalities of Edison, Westinghouse and Tesla.
Excellent history of the early days of electrici
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1.25x Speed and it's great!
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