Edison: Inventing the Century - Brossura

Baldwin, Neil

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0226035719 ISBN 13: 9780226035710

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2001

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Neil Baldwin is an executive director of the National Book Foundation and coeditor ofThe Writing Life. He is the author of critically acclaimed biographies of William Carlos Williams and Man Ray, as well asLegends of the Plumed Serpent: Biography of a Mexican God.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

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 mastermind who gave us electric light? In this fascinating biography, 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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• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0226035719
• ISBN 13: 9780226035710
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 531