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Edison : inventing the century / Neil Baldwin

By:

Baldwin, Neil, , 1947-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2001.Edition: University of Chicago Press editionDescription: x, 531 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780226035710

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 EDI

LOC classification:

TK140.E3 B25 2001

Summary: The genius of America's most prolific inventor, Thomas Edison, is widely acknowledged, and Edison himself has become an almost mythic 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? Neil Baldwin gives us a complex portrait of the inventor himself-both myth and man-and a multifaceted account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and irrevocably changed.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 EDI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		067012

Orginally published: New York : Hyperion, c1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The genius of America's most prolific inventor, Thomas Edison, is widely acknowledged, and Edison himself has become an almost mythic 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? Neil Baldwin gives us a complex portrait of the inventor himself-both myth and man-and a multifaceted account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and irrevocably changed.

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