"Electricity was key to Hong Kong's success. Hong Kong had one of the world's highest economic growth rates from the 1940s through the 1980s, due in large part to an ample supply of electricity at a time when most of Asia struggled to power factories, let alone light homes, giving it a ten-year head start on its East Asian rivals. This macro-invention made possible Hong Kong's development from a colonial port of middling importance to one of the world's...

Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse engage in a battle of technology and ideas that will determine whose electrical system will power the new century.

Amidst construction of a federal dam in rural Tennessee, Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, meets Claire, a small-town housewife struggling to find her footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South. As Nathan wrestles with the burdens of a secret guilt and tangled love, Claire struggles to balance motherhood and a newfound freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she hadn't known she possessed. The arrival of electricity...