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Founders Notes: Jp Morgan

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Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World David Senra All right, so that was an excerpt from the book that I read this week and the one I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. So this one paragraph just gives you an idea of the time that this entire story is set in. It says, "The miracle of the great Atlantic cable flashed telegrams across the coldest depths of the ocean. Where once letters from J.P. Morgan's father" -- J.P. Morgan actually plays an important role in the story. I didn't know that going into the -- before I read the book. "Once letters from J.P. Morgan's father in the London office took weeks to arrive, now telegrams pulsed through in mere minutes. The railroads had become mighty, creating new cities where there have been only marshland or prairie." "And in just the past year, they had laid an astounding 10,000 miles of track, the 1880 census" -- that's where the story begins. It's going to go all the way up until the early 1900s. "Census showed 50 million Americans. J.P. Morgan, unlike many of his old money peers, rel

Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World David Senra All right, so that was an excerpt from the book that I read this week and the one I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. So this one paragraph just gives you an idea of the time that this entire story is set in. It says, "The miracle of the great Atlantic cable flashed telegrams across the coldest depths of the ocean. Where once letters from J.P. Morgan's father" -- J.P. Morgan actually…

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