{"id":15,"date":"2006-09-19T11:40:31","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T18:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/2006\/12\/27\/the-lightning-keeper\/"},"modified":"2006-12-27T11:41:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T18:41:01","slug":"the-lightning-keeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/2006\/09\/19\/the-lightning-keeper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lightning Keeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starling Lawrence, The Lightning Keeper 2006.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fictional account of the development of the electrical industry in the early twentieth Century.  Corporate intrique from Edison to Westinghouse and centering on General Electric and its CEO Charles Albert Coffin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im2\/1lightkeeper.jpg\" alt=\"The Lightning Keeper\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im2\/coffin.jpg\" alt=\"Charles A Coffin \" \/>  Charles A. Coffin<\/p>\n<p> The story takes place largely in Northwest Connecticut in an iron factory town.  The central characters are the daughter of the current iron master and a Montenegro immigrant inventor who attempts to build a more efficient water wheel turbine.  Patents, industrial espionoge, political intrigue, and romance all figure into this well researched work.  GE scientist Charles Steinmetz and scientist Nikola Tesla feature.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im2\/steinmetzedison.jpg\" alt=\"Steinmetz and Edison \" \/> Charles Steinmetz and Thomas Edison<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im2\/tesla.jpg\" alt=\"Nikola Tesla\" \/> Nikola Tesla in his Lightning Laboratory<\/p>\n<p>General Electric Men knitting for the war effort.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im2\/gewar.JPG\" alt=\"GE Men knitting for war effort\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Good read, it will transport the reader into this unique time and place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im2\/P3.gif\" alt=\"Nikola Tesla\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starling Lawrence, The Lightning Keeper 2006. This is a fictional account of the development of the electrical industry in the early twentieth Century. Corporate intrique from Edison to Westinghouse and centering on General Electric and its CEO Charles Albert Coffin. Charles A. Coffin The story takes place largely in Northwest Connecticut in an iron factory &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/2006\/09\/19\/the-lightning-keeper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lightning Keeper&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/agog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}