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The Age Of Edison
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Author : Ernest Freeberg
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-02-21
The Age Of Edison written by Ernest Freeberg and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-21 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
Thomas Edison
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Author : Linda Tagliaferro
language : en
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Thomas Edison written by Linda Tagliaferro and has been published by Twenty-First Century Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of the electric lighting system and the phonograph.
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.
Edison His Life And Inventions
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Author : Frank Lewis Dyer
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-08-27
Edison His Life And Inventions written by Frank Lewis Dyer and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-27 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Thomas Edison For Kids
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Author : Laurie Carlson
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2006-02-01
Thomas Edison For Kids written by Laurie Carlson and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Thomas Edison, one of the world's greatest inventors, is introduced in this fascinating activity book. Children will learn how Edison ushered in an astounding age of invention with his unique way of looking at things and refusal to be satisfied with only one solution to a problem. This book helps inspire kids to be inventors and scientists, as well as persevere with their own ideas. Activities allow children to try Edison's experiments themselves, with activities such as making a puppet dance using static electricity, manufacturing a switch for electric current, constructing a telegraph machine, manipulating sound waves, building an electrical circuit to test for conductors and insulators, making a zoetrope, and testing a dandelion for latex. In addition to his inventions and experiments, the book explores Edison's life outside of science, including his relationship with inventor Nikola Tesla, his rivalry with George Westinghouse, and his friendship with Henry Ford. A time line, glossary, and lists of supply sources, places to visit, and websites for further exploration complement this activity book.
Thomas Edison
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Author : Czeena Devera
language : en
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Release Date : 2018-08-01
Thomas Edison written by Czeena Devera and has been published by Cherry Lake this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Thomas Edison in The My Itty-Bitty Bio series is a biography for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Thomas Edison in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills. The series celebrates diversity, covering women and men from a range of backgrounds and professions. Includes a timeline, primary sources, glossary, and index.
Who Invented The Light Bulb
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Author : Susan E. Hamen
language : en
Publisher: Stem Smackdown (Alternator Boo
Release Date : 2018
Who Invented The Light Bulb written by Susan E. Hamen and has been published by Stem Smackdown (Alternator Boo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Most Americans believe that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. But British scientist Joseph Swan was working on this invention at the same time. Patent battles, lies, and determination fill out this race to create the first usable light bulb!
Thomas Alva Edison
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Author : Gene Adair
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1996-08
Thomas Alva Edison written by Gene Adair and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Details the life and work of Thomas Edison, who developed the electric light bulb and over 1000 patents for other inventions and innovations.
Thomas Edison Invents The Light Bulb
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Author : Douglas Hustad
language : en
Publisher: ABDO
Release Date : 2015-12-15
Thomas Edison Invents The Light Bulb written by Douglas Hustad and has been published by ABDO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Learn about the great scientist Thomas Edison as he invented the light bulb. You'll read about his life, the science behind his studies, and the impact of his work on the world today.
Empires Of Light
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Author : Jill Jonnes
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2003-08-19
Empires Of Light written by Jill Jonnes and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-19 with History categories.
The gripping history of electricity and how the fateful collision of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed. In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science, invention, intrigue, money, death, and hard-eyed Wall Street millionaires. At the heart of the story are Thomas Alva Edison, the nation’s most famous and folksy inventor, creator of the incandescent light bulb and mastermind of the world’s first direct current electrical light networks; the Serbian wizard of invention Nikola Tesla, elegant, highly eccentric, a dreamer who revolutionized the generation and delivery of electricity; and the charismatic George Westinghouse, Pittsburgh inventor and tough corporate entrepreneur, an industrial idealist who in the era of gaslight imagined a world powered by cheap and plentiful electricity and worked heart and soul to create it. Edison struggled to introduce his radical new direct current (DC) technology into the hurly-burly of New York City as Tesla and Westinghouse challenged his dominance with their alternating current (AC), thus setting the stage for one of the eeriest feuds in American corporate history, the War of the Electric Currents. The battlegrounds: Wall Street, the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Niagara Falls, and, finally, the death chamber—Jonnes takes us on the tense walk down a prison hallway and into the sunlit room where William Kemmler, convicted ax murderer, became the first man to die in the electric chair.