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Founders: #83 Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

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[00:00:00] Great indeed is the power of electricity, and in the final decades of the 19th century, three titans of America's Gilded Age were among the Promethean few who dreamed of the possibilities hidden in this force of nature, its awesome power visible only in the wild rumble and slash of electrical storms. Each titan was determined to master this mysterious fluid. Each vied to construct an empire of light and energy on a new and monumental scale. Each envisioned radiant enterprises that would straddle the globe, illuminating the night and easing forever the burden of brute labor. This…

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