Edison's Electric Light: The Art of Invention
Author:   Robert Friedel (University of Maryland) ,  Paul B. Israel (Director and General Editor, Thomas A. Edison Papers)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition:   Revised edition
ISBN:  

9780801894824


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   13 September 2010
Recommended Age:   From 13
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Robert Friedel (University of Maryland) ,  Paul B. Israel (Director and General Editor, Thomas A. Edison Papers)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition:   Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9780801894824


ISBN 10:   0801894824
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   13 September 2010
Recommended Age:   From 13
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Preface to the Johns Hopkins Edition 1. ""A Big Bonanza"" 2. ""The Throes of Invention"" The Search for a Vacuum 3. ""Some Difficult Requirements"" Carbon and the Incandescent Lamp 4. The Triumph of Carbon Who Invented the Incandescent Lamp? 5. Business and Science The Menlo Park Mystique 6. A System Complete 7. Promises Fulfilled Afterword A Note from the Authors with Acknowledgments Notes Recommended Additional Reading Index"

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Quite readable... Friedel and Israel provide a good description of the process of inventing a functional, marketable incandescent light bulb as well as an electric power grid. Choice Any library strong in scientific inventions and the process of theories and exploration will find this a winning survey. Midwest Book Review I highly recommend Edison's Electric Light. -- Eric Hintz Technology and Culture


Quite readable... Friedel and Israel provide a good description of the process of inventing a functional, marketable incandescent light bulb as well as an electric power grid. Choice Any library strong in scientific inventions and the process of theories and exploration will find this a winning survey. Midwest Book Review 2011


Author Information

Robert Friedel is a professor of history of technology and 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 of Edison: A Life of Invention and the coeditor of the multivolume The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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