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Edison : Inventing the Century
Edison Inventing the Century
Author: Neil Baldwin
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 inven...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226035710
ISBN-10: 0226035719
Publication Date: 4/28/2001
Pages: 542
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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A remarkable study of a genius. Neil Baldwin presents America in a man - as straange, obsessed, tangled and brilliant as the age he literally illuminated. Baldwin has taken Edison out of the waxworks and restored him to humanity. A truly fine biography of Edison.


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