Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention
by Robert Friedel, Bernard S. Finn, Paul Israel
Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Technology, Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
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So encrusted with folklore has Edison's invention of the electric light become that we may be hard-pressed to recognize its significance. This account, unlike others, focuses on the invention rather than the inventor to remind us how extraordinary an achievement it was. Friedel and his colleagues draw chiefly on notes, calculations, and sketches from Edison's laboratory notebooks as well as other contemporary records to re-create the process of invention. Eminently readable and meticulously show more researched, this illustrated volume is a scholarly work of high order. It belongs in every research collection and in most general collections as well. show lessTags
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Very detailed and technical, yet readable, walk through as to how Edison and his staff at his laboratory in New Jersey came up with the first practical incandescent light.
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Robert Friedel is a professor of the history and technology of science at the University of Maryland, College Park. His most recent book is A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium. Paul Israel is the director and general editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is the author show more of Edison: A Life of Invention and the coeditor of the multivolume The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, also published by Johns Hopkins. show less
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Paul Israel is the managing editor of the multivolume documentary edition of the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University He lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.
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- Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention
- People/Characters
- Thomas Edison
- Important events
- Invention of the Light Bulb
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- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, Science & Nature, Technology
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- 621.3092 — Applied science & technology Engineering Applied physics Electronics & Computers Electric power plant Biography; History By Place Biography
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- TK4351 .F75 — Technology Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear Electric lighting
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