The Last Days of Night: A Novel
The opening scene is well built, reeking of the times.
"He took in every detail of what he saw, not to remember, but to forget."
"Paul was an attorney. Salvation by repetition."
Funny, Westington having his own line.
Remote control of electricity by Edison with last mile being traveling electricity and the rest morse code. A telelight if you will.
"They indicate how a technological accomplishment is also a multiple, complex social and communicative accomplishment, creating place and meaning for the new technology within the many discursive systems by which people assign value, identify uses, and create goals incorporating the technology." - Letters to Thomas Edison in Response to His Claim of Solving Incandescent Lighting, 1878
"What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do." - Tim Berners-Lee.
"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation" - Charles Kettering, inventor of electric self-starter
New technology
1. Explain AC. People understand power but misunderstand voltage.
2. Superior story wins
3. How Edison worked towards replacing kerosene
Tesla coil lightning with resonant transformer also used in telegraphy, radio transmitters and medical devices.
Westinghouse setting up his "network of current" by subcontracting generator manufacturers.
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