The Men Who Built America

A Market to Conquer (1x6)

Air date: Nov 25, 2012

Disgusted that the alternating current, the invention of Nikola Tesla, supplants the direct current which he had developed, Thomas Edison devotes himself to the manufacture of the first electric chair. In 1882, the first public attempt tarnished the reputation of the inventor and that of JP Morgan. The businessman does not give up his plan to build an electricity empire and intends to win the contract for the hydroelectric plant of Niagara Falls to supply electricity in the northeast of the United States