(New York Books) Topsy with Tesla

[alice wellintown]

Includes a bit on Tesla.


Mr. Daly leads readers on mesmerizing detours that reveal everything
from the origins of pink lemonade to a brazen pickpocket’s trick. And
he recreates the War of the Elephants, fought between the circus
magnates P. T. Barnum and Adam Forepaugh, and the War of the Currents,
the struggle between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over the
competing standards of alternating and direct current for electrical
power distribution.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/nyregion/all-eyes-on-the-elephant.html?_r=0