[Download] Edison's Electric Light: The Art of Invention (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Technology)
| #3185256 in Books | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2010-06-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.60 x5.40l,.65 | File Name: 0801894824 | 248 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Informative look at Edison's invention of the electric light bulb|By E. Jaksetic|Thomas Edison, a prolific American inventor in the late 1800's, is credited with inventing the electric light bulb. This book demonstrates that Edison's invention of the light bulb was not simply the work of an individual, creative inventor, but rather the product of a lengthy process in which Ed|||"Quite readable... Friedel and Israel provide a good description of the process of inventing a functional, marketable incandescent light bulb as well as an electric power grid." (Choice)
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In September 1878, Thomas Alva Edison brashly―and prematurely―proclaimed his breakthrough invention of a workable electric light. That announcement was followed by many months of intense experimentation that led to the successful completion of his Pearl Street station four years later. Edison was not alone―nor was he first―in developing an incandescent light bulb, but his was the most successful of all competing inventions. Drawing from the documents in the E...
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