Description: Long before there was Windows versus Macintosh, the first standards war was fought over how electricity would be transmitted. That fierce war would change the lives of billions and shape the modern technological age.
Brief description:
Tom McNichol is a contributing editor to Wired magazine, a highly regarded writer on technology and business, and a regular contributor to the New York Times and Washington Post. He has recorded segments for the public radio shows Marketplace and All Things Considered.
Review Quotes:
"From the twisted copper wires of electricity's early years McNichol spins a story buzzing with genius and fraud, ambition and infamy, hilarity and humiliation. It's a joy to read: a comic operetta of American industrial history, full of great men, small minds and an alarming number of dead dogs."
-- "Craig Stoltz, health editor, Washington Post"