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St. Anthony transfer Andrews makes Boys High debut in win

New York Post - Jan 6, 2012
By ZACH BRAZILLER Rashad Andrews, the talented 6-foot-4 senior wing who left national power St. Anthony (NJ) for Boys & Girls nearly a month ago, made his PSAL debut in Boys & Girls' 61-45 road win over George Westinghouse Thursday evening.

PSAL boys basketball roundup: Whitehead's 3-pointer lifts Lincoln past Robeson

New York Post - Jan 6, 2012
Whitehead, who sank a 3-pointer to beat George Westinghouse Dec. 22, had 21 points and 10 rebounds and Ian Vasquez and Travis Charles followed with 10 points apiece for Lincoln, which faces Lone Peak (Utah) on Saturday in the Under Armour Brandon ...

Venture Capitalism not Crony Capitalism

American Thinker - Jan 20, 2012
Nikola Tesla was sent packing, from his own company, to George Westinghouse -- even though Tesla had invented the polyphase technology that would become the backbone of electric (AC) motors and the basis of the power grid that now lights our planet.

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Tesla: Man Out of Time

by: Margaret Cheney
In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was, without a doubt, a trailblazing inventor who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming devices that were virtually without theoretical precedent. Tesla not only discovered the rotating magnetic field -- the basis of most alternating-current machinery -- but also introduced us to the fundamentals of robotics, computers, and missile science.
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Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

by: Jill Jonnes
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill 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. At the heart of the story are Thomas Alva Edison, the nation’s most famous and folksy inventor, creator of the incandescent light bulb and mastermind of the world’s first direct current electrical light networks; the Serbian wizard of invention Nikola Tesla, elegant, highly eccentric, a dreamer who revolutionized the generation and delivery of electricity; and the charismatic George Westinghouse, Pittsburgh inventor and tough corporate entrepreneur, an industrial idealist who in the era of gaslight imagined a world powered by cheap and plentiful electricity and worked heart and soul to create it.
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Thomas Edison for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities

by: Laurie Carlson
Thomas Edison, one of the world's greatest inventors, is introduced in this fascinating activity book. Children will learn how Edison ushered in an astounding age of invention with his unique way of looking at things and refusal to be satisfied with only one solution to a problem. This book helps inspire kids to be inventors and scientists, as well as persevere with their own ideas. Activities allow children to try Edison's experiments themselves, with activities such as making a puppet dance using static electricity, manufacturing a switch for electric current, constructing a telegraph machine, manipulating sound waves, building an electrical circuit to test for conductors and insulators, making a zoetrope, and testing a dandelion for latex.
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From Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity

by: Richard Munson

The blackout of 2003 illuminated just how dependent America is on electricity. It was not just that some 50 million people in eight states and Ontario were cut off from their Televisions, microwaves, ATMs, and email. Without the electrical juice needed to keep their sockets alive, factory managers were forced to close production lines, city managers shut down water deliveries, grocery store clerks watched their frozen inventory slowly melt away. Economists estimated that the blackout cost Americans $5 billion even as energy analysts were predicting that a similar blackout could happen again.
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