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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Map
Part I: Salients
Chapter 1: The Last Days of Night
Chapter 2: The Wizard of Menlo Park
Chapter 3: Prodigies
Chapter 4: A Suggestion of Compromise
Chapter 5: The Curious Case of U.S. Letters Patent No. 223,898
Chapter 6: Locusts
Chapter 7: Rivalries
Chapter 8: The Ghost of Nikola Tesla
Chapter 9: Mr. Tesla Has Something He Would Not Like to Show You
Chapter 10: Alternating Current
Chapter 11: A Dash to the Door
Chapter 12: A Lobster Dinner at Delmonico’s
Chapter 13: Money
Chapter 14: A Difficult Negotiation
Chapter 15: Networks
Chapter 16: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Chapter 17: A Famous Visitor
Chapter 18: Fathers and Sons
Chapter 19: Death in the Wires
Chapter 20: The Difference of Opinion Between Mr. Tesla and Mr. Westinghouse
Chapter 21: Intrigue at Carter, Hughes & Cravath
Chapter 22: A Visit to Number 4 Gramercy Park
Chapter 23: The Players’ Club
Chapter 24: Nikola Tesla’s Laboratory of Wonders
Chapter 25: Instability in the System
Part II: Reverse Salients
Chapter 26: Powerful Friends
Chapter 27: Two Walks Along the East River
Chapter 28: A Frightful Accusation
Chapter 29: Dead Ends and False Leads
Chapter 30: The Metropolitan Opera House
Chapter 31: Questions Yet Unanswered
Chapter 32: Nightly Terrors at Number 4 Gramercy Park
Chapter 33: Mr. Edison Would Disagree
Chapter 34: The Empire of Invention
Chapter 35: Associate Attorneys
Chapter 36: Miss Huntington Grants an Interview
Chapter 37: A New Year’s Grotesque
Chapter 38: A Midnight Theft
Chapter 39: Inventions Already Invented
Chapter 40: The Chair
Chapter 41: The Mystery of the Filaments
Chapter 42: The Deposition of Thomas Edison
Chapter 43: Fail, Fail, and Fail Again
Chapter 44: The Prodigal Cravath Returns
Chapter 45: All Happy Families . . .
Chapter 46: But Each Unhappy Family . . .
Chapter 47: The Morning After
Chapter 48: The Hatchet Man in Buffalo
Chapter 49: The Execution of William Kemmler
Chapter 50: When London Trembles . . . New York Quakes
Chapter 51: Apologetic Millionaires
Chapter 52: End Times
Chapter 53: The Second-Most Mysterious Telegram That Paul Had Ever Received
Chapter 54: Teatime at the Cravath Household
Chapter 55: Fisk
Chapter 56: At the Foot of Beinn Bhreagh
Chapter 57: The Reverse Salient
Part III: Solutions
Chapter 58: The Metropolitan Opera House Ball
Chapter 59: A Secret Meeting with the Richest Man in America
Chapter 60: Bury a Penny
Chapter 61: A Fox in the Chicken Coop
Chapter 62: Whether or Not It’s True
Chapter 63: Brief Vignettes as the Stage Is Set for the Final Performance
Chapter 64: Nikola Tesla Returns to Manhattan
Chapter 65: Men and Women
Chapter 66: The Current War Comes to an End
Chapter 67: The Fall of Thomas Edison
Chapter 68: Revelry
Chapter 69: The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
Chapter 70: All Men Get the Things They Love
Chapter 71: Postwar
Chapter 72: Niagara Falls, 1896
A Note from the Author
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Other Titles
About the Author
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