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(Fictitious character) Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) Frankenstein, Victor Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 Electrification Monsters in literature Science in literature Scientists in literature Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft 1797-1851 Tesla, Nikola 1856-1943 Westinghouse, George 1846-1914Summary: 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
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TeSummary: Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CURJonnes, Jill
Summary: A chronicle of scientific history recounts the race among inventor Thomas Edison, eccentric genius Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, a tough entrepreneur and powerful empire builder, to bring electricity to the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.3 JONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Eng JonnesSummary: This episode of the four-part documentary series highlights how electricity became a part of every American's life. After 1880, Thomas Edison launched the electric-lighting era, and power plants spread to cities. Few private utilities wired rural areas, citing its cost. But if private firms refused to do it, the government would. Arthur Morgan and David Lilienthal, leading the Tennessee Valley...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Breakaway Pub. 1987
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 917.7 HUDKamkwamba, William
Summary: An enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity, and a future, to his family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KAMKay, Terry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KAYMcPherson, Stephanie Sammartino.
Summary: Relates the race to provide electricity to Americans with two different electric distribution systems, Thomas Edison's direct current and Nikola Tesla's alternating current.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 333.7932 MCPWilliams, Niall
Summary: "Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2019
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Summary: The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror and science fiction genres. The name Frankenstein has become part of our everyday language, often used in derogatory terms to describe scientists who have overstepped a perceived moral line. But how did a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 HARBuzzeo, Toni
Summary: In 1937 rural Kentucky, Cora Mae starts a school newspaper to rally support for the Rural Electrification Act, but the town's resistance to change is not easy to overcome.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUZSchafer, Mike.
Summary: "This illustrated history examines the evolution of the mighty "Pennsy" from a disparate group of early horse-car lines into a twentieth-century transportation giant sprawling across 10,000 route miles in 13 of the nation's most populous states."--Dust jacket. "This hardcover edition of the original soft cover volume consists of all new photography from numerous collections. ... We introduce...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2009