Edison : Inventing the Century

Neil Baldwin

ISBN 10: 0226035719 / ISBN 13: 9780226035710

Published by The University Of Chicago Press Apr 2001, 2001

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Neuware - The genius of America's most prolific inventor, Thomas Edison, is widely acknowledged, and Edison himself has become an almost mythic figure. But how much do we really know about the man who considered deriving rubber from a goldenrod plant as opposed to the genius who gave us electric light Neil Baldwin gives us a complex portrait of the inventor himself--both myth and man--and a multifaceted account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and irrevocably changed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edison : Inventing the Century
• Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press Apr 2001
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226035719
• ISBN 13: 9780226035710
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 232W x 156H x 46D millimeters 232 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 46 millimeters depth
• Weight: 760 grams

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Synopsis

The genius of America's most prolific inventor, Thomas Edison, is widely acknowledged, and Edison himself has become an almost mythic figure. But how much do we really know about the man who considered deriving rubber from a goldenrod plant as opposed to the genius who gave us electric light? Neil Baldwin gives us a complex portrait of the inventor himself—both myth and man—and a multifaceted account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and irrevocably changed.

About the Author

Neil Baldwin is an executive director of the National Book Foundation and coeditor of The Writing Life. He is the author of critically acclaimed biographies of William Carlos Williams and Man Ray, as well as Legends of the Plumed Serpent: Biography of a Mexican God.