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Summary: Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CUR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Cu

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CUR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CUR

Summary: Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla's uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison and his patron George Westinghouse. Another thread traces Tesla's sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TES

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Te

Davis, Wes

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "The epic road trips-and surprising friendship-of John Burroughs, nineteenth-century naturalist, and Henry Ford and Thomas Edison, inventors of the modern age"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3048 DAV

Frith, Margaret.

Summary: An introduction to the life and accomplishments of Thomas Edison, America's most famous inventor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2005

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET EDISON

Hager, Thomas

Summary: During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country's poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's "Detroit of the South" would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.980 HAG

Moore, Graham

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: When electric light innovator Thomas Edison sues his only remaining rival for patent infringement, George Westinghouse hires untested Columbia Law School graduate Paul Ravath for a case fraught with lies, betrayals, and deception.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Moore 2016

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