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The genius of Thomas Edison is widely acknowledged, and Edison himself has become an almost mythical 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? In this text, Neil Baldwin gives a complex portrait of the inventor - both myth and man - and an account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and irrevocably changed.

Edison: Inventing the Century

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The genius of Thomas Edison is widely acknowledged, and Edison himself has become an almost mythical figure. But how much... Read more

    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 28/04/2001
    ISBN13: 9780226035710, 978-0226035710
    ISBN10: 0226035719

    Number of Pages: 542

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    The genius of Thomas Edison is widely acknowledged, and Edison himself has become an almost mythical 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? In this text, Neil Baldwin gives a complex portrait of the inventor - both myth and man - and an account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and irrevocably changed.

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