The Quotable Edison
The Quotable Edison

Author: Michele Wehrwein Albion

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2011-03-20

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 0813037859

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Thomas Edison was the "Wizard of Menlo Park." A prolific inventor and holder of numerous patents, he was also called a "magician," "the Napoleon of Science," and the "Inventor of the Age." But he was also a practical joker, a self-made man with a certain disdain for polite society, an ambitious explorer, and a public intellectual. The Quotable Edison offers a wealth of his insightful, enlightening, and sometimes humorous comments and witticisms on a wide range of subjects, from business to politics, from religion to nutrition, from advice to boys to opinions on women’s clothing.

Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison

Author: Martin Woodside

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781402749551

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A brief biography of inventor Thomas Edison that profiles his life and works which includes a number of inventions including the phonograph, movie camera, and incandescent light bulb.

Edison
Edison

Author: Ronald Clark

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-12-17

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1448210275

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It is almost a century since Thomas Alva Edison, the world's greatest inventor, gave the world electric light - and exactly one hundred years since he built the first successful phonograph (forerunner of the gramophone). The man who declared that "genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration," and who on average lodged a patent every two weeks of his adult life, was the most famous American of his day. Only now, however, is it possible to present him clearly against the background of his times and to access fairly his achievements and his often controversial business and working methods. In Edison: The Man Who Made The Future, first published in 1977, Ronald Clark describes the inventors early untutored upbringing, his struggles in the industrial jungle which grew up in the aftermath of the American Civil War, and his vital contributions to what became the motion picture industry. A prolific inventor in his own right, he was also a developer of other men's ideas. A pacifist, he became President of the U.S. Naval Consulting Board in the First World War. Thrusting, enquiring, and determined to leave his mark on history, he was, perhaps, the archetypal American of his era.

Everything's Relative
Everything's Relative

Author: Tony Rothman

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2008-05-02

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0470349263

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The surprising truth behind many of the most cherished "facts" in science history Morse invented the telegraph, Bell the telephone, Edison the light bulb, and Marconi the radio . . . right? Well . . . the truth is slightly more complicated. The history of science and technology is riddled with apocrypha, inaccuracies, and falsehoods, and physicist Tony Rothman has taken it upon himself to throw a monkey wrench into the works. Combining a storyteller's gifts with a scientist's focus and hardheaded devotion to the facts-such as they may be-Rothman breaks down many of the most famous "just-so" stories of physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, and technology to give credit where credit is truly due. From Einstein's possible misunderstanding of his own theories to actress Hedy Lemarr's role in the invention of the radio-controlled torpedo, he dredges his way through the legends of science history in relating the fascinating stories behind some of the most important, and often unsung, breakthroughs in science. Tony Rothman, PhD (Bryn Mawr, PA), is a Research Associate at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of seven other critically acclaimed science books and a frequent contributor to leading science publications, including Scientific American and Discover.

Edison
Edison

Author: Neil Baldwin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2001-04-28

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9780226035710

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