“If you think you can stop me, Edison said softly, go ahead and try. But you’ll have to do it in the dark. That isn’t a direct quote from Thomas Alva Edison, legendary inventor of the incandescent light bulb. But to Graham Moore, author of The Last Days of Night, a historical novel released last month, it’s something the Wizard of Menlo Park could very well have said. In a taut 384 pages, Moore, who won an Academy Award as the screenwriter for The Imitation Game, takes readers on a gripping ride with some of America’s most renowned figures—Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Nikola Tesla, and J.P. Morgan—through a critical but overlooked period of history: the dawn of the electrical age. Today, Americans have the luxury of taking for granted the miracle of electricity and its gifts. We flip a switch, we get light. We press a button, on comes our TV. We hardly give it a thought. But there was a time, in our not-too-distant past, when the sight of a flickering light bulb inspired awe and struck fear.
Source: How Edison, Westinghouse, and the Light Bulb Changed Everything
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