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The Age of Edison

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The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of the era was Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the light bulb overwhelmed Americans with the sense that they were witnessing the birth of a new age. More than any other invention, electric light marked the arrival of modernity, and Edison became a mythic figure and the avatar of an era. - Jacket flap.

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Language
English
Pages
354

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Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931, Electric lighting, Technological innovations, History, Contemporaries, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY, General, Social aspects, Gloeilampen, Elektriciteit, Technische vernieuwing, Sociale aspecten, Vernieuwing, Technological innovations, united states, Electric lighting, history, Edison, thomas a. (thomas alva), 1847-1931, Innovations, Histoire, Aspect social, Éclairage électrique

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2013, Penguin Press, The Penguin Press
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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
Epilogue : Electric light's golden jubilee

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Library of Congress
T173.4 .F74 2013, T173.4.F74 2013

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
354 p.
Number of pages
354
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL25425024M
Internet Archive
ageofedison00erne
ISBN 10
1594204268
ISBN 13
9781594204265
LCCN
2012039513
OCLC/WorldCat
823294391

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