The age of Edison electric light and the invention of modern America
"The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the s...
| Main Author: | Freeberg, Ernest. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2013.
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| Series: |
Penguin history of American life.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Inventing Edison
- Inventing electric light
- Civic light
- Creative destruction: Edison and the gas companies
- Work light
- Leisure light
- Inventive nation
- Looking at inventions, inventing new ways of looking
- Inventing a profession
- The light of civilization
- Exuberance and order
- Illumination science
- Rural light
- Electric light's golden jubilee.