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Edison Round Table
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language : en
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Release Date : 1954
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Edison Round Table
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Release Date : 1950
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Edison
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Author : Edmund Morris
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2019-10-22
Edison written by Edmund Morris and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only for the gift of universal electric light. His invention of the first practical incandescent lamp 140 years ago so dazzled the world—already reeling from his invention of the phonograph and dozens of other revolutionary devices—that it cast a shadow over his later achievements. In all, this near-deaf genius (“I haven’t heard a bird sing since I was twelve years old”) patented 1,093 inventions, not including others, such as the X-ray fluoroscope, that he left unlicensed for the benefit of medicine. One of the achievements of this staggering new biography, the first major life of Edison in more than twenty years, is that it portrays the unknown Edison—the philosopher, the futurist, the chemist, the botanist, the wartime defense adviser, the founder of nearly 250 companies—as fully as it deconstructs the Edison of mythological memory. Edmund Morris, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, brings to the task all the interpretive acuity and literary elegance that distinguished his previous biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Ludwig van Beethoven. A trained musician, Morris is especially well equipped to recount Edison’s fifty-year obsession with recording technology and his pioneering advances in the synchronization of movies and sound. Morris sweeps aside conspiratorial theories positing an enmity between Edison and Nikola Tesla and presents proof of their mutually admiring, if wary, relationship. Enlightened by seven years of research among the five million pages of original documents preserved in Edison’s huge laboratory at West Orange, New Jersey, and privileged access to family papers still held in trust, Morris is also able to bring his subject to life on the page—the adored yet autocratic and often neglectful husband of two wives and father of six children. If the great man who emerges from it is less a sentimental hero than an overwhelming force of nature, driven onward by compulsive creativity, then Edison is at last getting his biographical due.
The Electric City
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Author : Harold L. Platt
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1991-04-09
The Electric City written by Harold L. Platt and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-04-09 with History categories.
Describes consumers' shifting habits of fuel consumption, tracing how use of wood led to burning coal and coal gas, to the arrival, to the arrival of the arc lamp, and then the coming of electricity. Shows that the city government and utility brokers faced two problems: how to generate a cheap supply of electricity, and how to sell electrical energy to people who were already enjoying gas services. The solutions were found by Samuel Insull, president of Commonwealth Edison Company, who put electrical technology on a sound economic footing.
Edison To Enron
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Author : Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2011-10-03
Edison To Enron written by Robert L. Bradley, Jr. and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-03 with Political Science categories.
The oil industry in the United States has been the subject of innumerable histories. But books on the development of the natural gas industry and the electricity industry in the U.S. are scarce. Edison to Enron is a readable flowing history of two of America's largest and most colorful industries. It begins with the story of Samuel Insull, a poor boy from England, who started his career as Thomas Edison's right-hand man, then went on his own and became one of America's top industrialists. But when Insull's General Electric's energy empire collapsed during the Great Depression, the hitherto Great Man was denounced and prosecuted and died a pauper. Against that backdrop, the book introduces Ken Lay, a poor boy from Missouri who began his career as an aide to the head of Humble oil, now part of Exxon Mobil. Lay went on to become a Washington bureaucrat and energy regulator and then became the wunderkind of the natural gas industry in the 1980s with Enron. To connect the lives of these two energy giants, Edison to Enron takes the reader through the flamboyant history of the American energy industry, from Texas wildcatters to the great pipeline builders to the Washington wheeler-dealers. From the Reviews... "This scholarly work fills in much missing history about two of America's most important industries, electricity and natural gas." —Joseph A. Pratt, NEH-Cullen Professor of History and Business, University of Houston "... a remarkable book on the political inner workings of the U.S. energy industry." —Robert Peltier, PE, Editor-in-Chief, POWER Magazine "This is a powerful story, brilliantly told." —Forrest McDonald, Historian
Edison Laboratory Historical Data And Furnishing Plan
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Author : A. J. Millard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Edison Laboratory Historical Data And Furnishing Plan written by A. J. Millard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Edison National Historic Site (West Orange, N.J.) categories.
Retail Prices
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Retail Prices written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with Consumer price indexes categories.
Bulletin Of The United States Bureau Of Labor Statistics
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Bulletin Of The United States Bureau Of Labor Statistics written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with Labor categories.
King Arthur S Round Table
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Author : David Perkins
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2003-01-14
King Arthur S Round Table written by David Perkins and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-14 with Business & Economics categories.
Your organization functions and grows through conversations face-to-face and electronic, from the mailroom to the boardroom. The quality of those conversations determines how smart your organization is. This revelatory book shows you how the Round Table of Arthurian legend can help foster collaboration and transform today s world of business, nonprofits, and government. "When I want a group to work effectively, I turn immediately to my colleague of thirty-five years, David Perkins. This book is a distillation of his knowledge and wisdom." Howard Gardner author of Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Intelligence Reframed "David Perkins applies his wit and inventive mind to create a fresh perspective on the world of collaboration in organizations. His archetypes and toolboxes offer valuable insights to anyone facing the challenges of collaborative problem solving." David Straus author of How to Make Collaboration Work
Historic Furnishings Report Vol 1 Historical Data And Furnishing Plan Edison Laboratory 1995
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language : en
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Release Date : 1995
Historic Furnishings Report Vol 1 Historical Data And Furnishing Plan Edison Laboratory 1995 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with categories.