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.
| ISBN: | 9780226035710 |
| Publication date: | 28th April 2001 |
| Author: | Neil Baldwin |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press an imprint of The University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 542 pages |
| Series: | Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith |
| Genres: |
Biography: historical, political and military Electronics and communications engineering |