Set My Store
menu
Cart
{ "item_title" : "Edison", "item_author" : [" Paul Israel "], "item_description" : "Traces the life and career of the inventor and demonstrates that Edison's career was a product of the inventor's fast-changing era ", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/47/152/942/0471529427_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "58.00", "online_price" : "58.00", "our_price" : "58.00", "club_price" : "58.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }
Edison|Paul Israel

Edison : A Life of Invention

local_shippingShip to Me
In Stock.
FREE Shipping for Club Members help
storeIn-Store Pickup
search store by zipcode

Overview

Traces the life and career of the inventor and demonstrates that Edison's career was a product of the inventor's fast-changing era

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780471529422
  • ISBN-10: 0471529427
  • Publisher: Wiley
  • Publish Date: September 1998
  • Dimensions: 9.42 x 6.16 x 1.62 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.07 pounds
  • Page Count: 560

Related Categories

    1. Books
    2. Biography & Autobiography
    3. Science & Technology
    1. Books
    2. Science
    3. General
    1. Books
    2. Biography & Autobiography
    3. Historical

You May Also Like...

    1

Many successful people downplay their native gifts and emphasize their willpower, and Thomas Alva Edison was no exception. "Genius," he said so quotably, "is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Whatever the ratio, Edison had genius. Phonographs, electric lightbulbs, motion pictures, telephones - we trace all of these and many other inventions to this one man.

Now there is a hefty new biography worthy of the extraordinary man, Edison: A Life of Invention by Paul Israel. Editor of the ongoing Edison Papers project at Rutgers, and author of Edison's Electric Light, Israel seems to know everything there is to know about his subject. He calmly clears away the misty fables and shrinks Edison from godlike to no-less-imposing human stature. Along the way, he impressively explains the origins of the modern industrial world. The story of Thomas Edison would demand nothing less.

BAM Customer Reviews