George Westinghouse: The Man Who Powered America
By Jamie Glick
Length10h 43m
About this audiobook
In the spring of 1869, a twenty-two-year-old machinist stood beside a railroad track outside Pittsburgh and watched a train stop the way no train ever had — every car at once, at one touch of the engineer's hand. That young man's inventions would stop every train on earth, light the greatest fair ever built, and carry Niagara's power to a city's lamps. His name is on the current in your walls. Almost nobody knows his story.
George Westinghouse: The Man Who Powered America is the complete biography of the Civil War veteran who became "the greatest living engineer": the machine-shop boy who answered dying brakemen with the fail-safe air brake, bet his empire on Tesla's alternating current against Edison's smear campaign, lit Chicago's White City, and harnessed Niagara Falls.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length10 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 16, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
11. Chapter 1: The Machine Shop Boy (1846–1865)
22. Chapter 2: First Patents (1865–1869)
33. Chapter 3: The Air Brake (1869–1872)
44. Chapter 4: The Safety Crusade (1872–1883)
55. Chapter 5: Gas from the Ground (1883–1886)
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66. Chapter 6: The War of the Currents (1886–1890)
77. Chapter 7: Lighting the White City (1890–1893)
88. Chapter 8: Niagara (1893–1900)
99. Chapter 9: The Empire and the Fall (1900–1909)
1010. Chapter 10: The Last Engineer (1909–1914)
1111. Special Note
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