An edition of The languages of Edison's light (1999)

The languages of Edison's light

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An edition of The languages of Edison's light (1999)

The languages of Edison's light

"Charles Bazerman tells the story of the emergence of electric light as a story of symbols and communication. He examines how Edison and his colleagues represented light and power to themselves and to others as the technology was transformed from an idea to a daily fact of life.

He looks at the rhetoric used to create meaning and value for the emergent technology in the laboratory, in patent offices and courts, in financial markets, in boardrooms, in city halls, in newspapers, and in the consumer market-place. Along the way he describes the social and communicative arrangements that shaped and transformed the world in which Edison acted.

He portrays Edison, both the individual and the corporation, as a self-conscious social actor whose rhetorical groundwork was crucial to the technology's material realization and success."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
416

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-409) and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass
Series
Inside technology

Classifications

Library of Congress
TK4131 .B39 1999, TK4131 .B39 1999, TK4131.B39 1999, TK4131 .B39 1999eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 416 p. :
Number of pages
416

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL18138353M
Internet Archive
languagesofediso0000baze
ISBN 10
026202456X
LCCN
98051881
OCLC/WorldCat
42922325, 40359487
LibraryThing
252626
Goodreads
966178

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2768580W

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