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Title:
Edison
Author:
Morris, Edmund, author.
Publication Date:
2019
ISBN:
9780812993110
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
783 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Prologuye -- Botany (1920-1929) -- Defense (1910-1919) -- Chemistry (1900-1909) -- Magnetism (1890-1899) -- Light (1880-1889) -- Sound (1870-1879) -- Telegraphy (1860-1869) -- Natural philosophy (1847-1859) -- Epilogue, 1931 -- Acknowledgments -- Select bibliography -- Notes -- Illustration credits -- Index.
Abstract:
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.

Thomas Alva Edison's invention of the first practical incandescent lamp 140 years ago so dazzled the world that it cast a shadow over his later achievements. In all, this near-deaf genius patented 1,093 inventions, not including those he left unlicensed for the benefit of medicine.Morris portrays the unknown Edison-- philosopher, futurist, chemist, botanist, wartime defense adviser, founder of nearly 250 companies-- while deconstructing the Edison of mythological memory. -- adapted from jacket