The lightning keeper

By Starling Lawrence

Subjects: Immigrants, Fiction, historical, general, Italy, fiction, Fiction, General Electric Company, New york (n.y.), fiction, Electrical engineers

Description: Arriving in New York in 1914, inventor Toma Pekocevic designs a powerful water turbine that leads to a career within General Electric and a love affair with Harriet Bigelow, the daughter of a New England dynasty that has fallen on hard times.