How Edison, Westinghouse, and the Light Bulb Changed Everything

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“If you think you can stop me,” Edison said softly, “go ahead and try. But you’ll have to do it in the dark.”

That isn’t a direct quote from Thomas Alva Edison, legendary inventor of the incandescent light bulb. But to Graham Moore, author of The Last Days of Night, a historical novel released last month, it’s something the Wizard of Menlo Park could very well have said.

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