Edison: Inventing the Century (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Softcover

Baldwin, Neil

 
9780226035710: Edison: Inventing the Century (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226035719 ISBN 13: 9780226035710
Verlag: The University of Chicago Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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


Neil Baldwin is executive director of the National Book Foundation and coeditor of The Writing Life.

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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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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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Verlag
The University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226035719
ISBN 13 
9780226035710
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
544
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