History of Electricity
1. 
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
by:
Jill Jonnes
4.07 avg rating — 2,652 ratings 
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Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World
by:
David Bodanis
3.78 avg rating — 1,399 ratings 4. 
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by:
Gretchen Bakke
3.87 avg rating — 4,503 ratings 
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Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 (Softshell Books)
by:
Thomas P. Hughes
3.83 avg rating — 42 ratings 7. 
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
by:
Marc J. Seifer
3.73 avg rating — 6,430 ratings 8. 
Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s
by:
Meg Jacobs
3.86 avg rating — 97 ratings 9. 
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
by:
Tom Standage
3.95 avg rating — 3,526 ratings 9. 
Understanding Physics: Volume 2: Light, Magnetism and Electricity
by:
Isaac Asimov
4.21 avg rating — 112 ratings 11. 
Where Discovery Sparks Imagination: A Pictorial History of Radio and Electricity
by:
John D. Jenkins
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 12. 
Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death
by:
Mark Essig
3.82 avg rating — 265 ratings 
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Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray
by:
Linda Simon
3.52 avg rating — 52 ratings 14. 
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
by:
H.W. Brands
4.11 avg rating — 22,671 ratings 18. 
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Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940
by:
David E. Nye
3.95 avg rating — 100 ratings 20. 
The Merchant of Power: Sam Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis
by:
John F. Wasik
3.78 avg rating — 77 ratings 21. 
Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century 4.20 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Electrifying the Rural American West: Stories of Power, People, and Place
by:
Leah S. Glaser
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 23. 
When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America
by:
David E. Nye
3.68 avg rating — 37 ratings 24. 
Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930
by:
David E. Nye
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 25. 
The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
by:
Ernest Freeberg
3.58 avg rating — 956 ratings 26. 
Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization
by:
Samuel Milham
4.01 avg rating — 191 ratings 
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Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, & Revolution of the Electric Guitar
by:
Brad Tolinski
4.27 avg rating — 808 ratings 26. 
The Current War: A Battle Story Between Two Electrical Titans, Thomas Edison And George Westinghouse
by:
Adam Cline
3.74 avg rating — 103 ratings 
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The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
by:
Maury Klein
4.09 avg rating — 115 ratings 
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The Impact of Electricity: Development, Desires and Dilemmas
by:
Tanja Winther
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 36. 
The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable: A True Tale of Passion, Poison and Pursuit
by:
Carol Baxter
3.55 avg rating — 186 ratings 38. 
A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America
by:
James Delbourgo
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings 39. 
The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
by:
Basil Mahon
4.15 avg rating — 802 ratings 
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Lighting the World: Transforming our Energy Future by Bringing Electricity to Everyone
by:
Jim Rogers
3.62 avg rating — 42 ratings 42. 
The Telegraph: A History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States
by:
Lewis Coe
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings 42. 
Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count
by:
Jill Jonnes
3.78 avg rating — 3,318 ratings 
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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by:
Daniel Yergin
4.14 avg rating — 5,096 ratings 48. 
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Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude
by:
Robert V. Bruce
3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings 48. 
Buying Time: Environmental Collapse and the Future of Energy
by:
Kaz Makabe
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 
51. 
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
by:
Seth Shulman
3.63 avg rating — 290 ratings 
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Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet
by:
Richard Martin
3.69 avg rating — 90 ratings 
55. 
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
by:
Jeff Goodell
3.99 avg rating — 451 ratings 
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Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War
by:
Tom E. Wheeler
4.02 avg rating — 290 ratings 57. 
America's Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation
by:
Joshua Kendall
3.25 avg rating — 91 ratings 60. 
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They Changed the World: Bell, Edison and Tesla (Campfire Graphic Novels)
by:
Naresh Kumar
3.74 avg rating — 62 ratings 64. 
Stay Tuned: A History of American Broadcasting (LEA's Communication Series) 3.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
by:
Nicholas Carr
3.84 avg rating — 2,628 ratings 66. 
Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair
by:
Richard D. Moran
3.45 avg rating — 77 ratings 66. 
A Tower in Babel: A History of Broadcasting in the United States to 1933
by:
Erik Barnouw
4.55 avg rating — 31 ratings 
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Recorded Music in American Life: The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Artificial Sunshine: A Social History of Domestic Lighting
by:
Maureen Dillon
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 70. 
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
by:
David Leavitt
3.46 avg rating — 1,430 ratings 
