AC/DC
The Savage Tale of the First Standards War
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Narrated by:
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Malcolm Hillgartner
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By:
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Tom McNichol
About this listen
AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison bet wrong in that war, eventually losing control over the "operating system" for his future inventions - not to mention the company he founded, which would later become General Electric. Today's Digital Age wizards can take lessons from Edison's fierce battle: control an invention's technical standard and you control the market
©2008 Tom McNichol (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Critic Reviews
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- Michal
- 30-06-2021
interesting but too brief
it's a fascinating story which deserves a better treatment. The author spends a lot of time painting a great background and later the fallout of the main story but the main story itself is too brief. I would also like to see more technical details and more what modern science has to say about the lethality of electricity.
The lector has a good voice and was well chosen for the book. My only criticism were his embarassing and unnecessary attempts at a generic eastern European accent when quoting Tesla.
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