The Big Story About Nikola Tesla Was Necessary

After 1870, the global pace of technological improvement more than quadruples from less than half a percent per year at its fastest. George Westinghouse could set up an industrial research laboratory in which Nikola Tesla had a relatively narrow and focused set of tasks to do. And then rationalization and routinization of the job of developing and then deploying these technologies. That means that before 1870, your life was a lot like that of your grandparents.