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#83 Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, George Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World

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Edison's Persistence Overcomes All

In the 1800s, New York City's street cleaning crews removed two to three million pounds of horse manure left behind each day by the city's 150,000 horses. "There's no such thing as good enough," says entrepreneur Steve Wozniacki. Inventors and tinkerers found a better way to transport our bodies around.

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