An incredible melding of science and history, invention and majesty, here is the gripping story of the race among three titans of the Gilded Age to bring electricity to the world. Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting edge science, invention, intrigue, money, death and hard-eyed Wall Street millionaires. Empires of Light is the gripping history of electricity, t he `mysterious fluid' and how the fateful collision of Edison, Tesla and Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed....