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More Great Links
- Tesla: Master of Lightning on PBS
- The Nikola Tesla Museum Web Site
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- Cheney, Margaret. "Tesla: Man Out of Time." Simon & Schuster. New York. 1981.
- Encyclopedia Britannica 2005. "Tesla, Nikola." CD-ROM, 2005.
- General Electric. "Thomas Edison & GE."
http://www.ge.com/company/history/edison.html - Klein, Maury. "The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America." Bloomsbury Press. New York. 2008.
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http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ - World Book 2005. "electric current."
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