Their mushrooming disagreement is both captivating and a train wreck waiting to happen. Westinghouse has been sued by Thomas Edison, because the two can’t seem to agree on which of them invented the light bulb first. The book centers on Paul Cravath, a young Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School who is “confident, collected, energetically eager.” Through a strange confluence of events, he ends up assuming the formidable task of representing scientist and inventor George Westinghouse. To think of what legal warfare those few words had birthed.” Patent #233,898, otherwise known as the patent for the incandescent light: “The whole of the thing was fewer than one thousand words. It breaks down the real-life drama behind U.S. This historical novel about electricity-yes, really-is briskly moving and entirely engrossing. (As long as I have a working lamp on my bedside table so I can read at night, I’m good, thank you.) How is it, then, that I could not put down Graham Moore’s The Last Days of Night? I don’t grasp the principles of electricity, and to be honest I don’t give them much thought. If you ask me how electricity is generated, you will hear crickets chirping. Rating: An illuminating look at the compulsion of invention
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