Edison: Inventing the Century
by Neil Baldwin
Publication Date: Apr 28, 2001
List Price: $34.00
Format: Paperback, 542 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780226035710
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Parent Company: University of Chicago
Paperback Description:
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.
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.
Books similiar to Edison: Inventing the Century may be found in the categories below:
- Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
- Science / History
- Technology & Engineering / Electrical