Gathers sketches, notebook entries, letters, articles, patent information, and financial papers from the beginning of Edison's career as an inventor
The second volume of The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, which covers the inventor's life from the end of June 1873 to the end of March 1876, reveals a remarkable diversity of activities and interests.
The Papers of Thomas A. Edison
The third volume of this widely acclaimed series reveals the breath-taking intensity, intellectual acumen, and vast self-confidence of twenty-nine-year-old Thomas Edison.
... Lyman, 135 Howell, Wilson, 375, 388 How Success Is Won (Bolton), 457 Hubbard, Elbert, 273 Hughes, Charles Evans, 189, 191 Hughes, Charles T., 375, 38o, 409 Hughes, David Edward, 556-57 Hughes, Edward Everett (Mina's second husband), ...
Thomas Edison passed on many decades ago, but his inventions still echo loudly through time.
The volume includes an extended introduction, headnotes to the documents, illustrations, a chronology, discussion questions, a bibliography, and an index.
This newest volume in the acclaimed Papers of Thomas A. Edison covers one year in the life of America's greatest inventor—1878. That year Edison, whom a New York newspaper in...
He was equally convinced that the generators he had seen and tested—wallace's, Siemens's, Gramme's, and others—represented a primitive stage of development. with typical cockiness, he set out more seriously than ever to make a ...
This bold reassessment of Edison’s life and career answers this and many other important questions while telling the story of how he came upon his most famous inventions as a young man and spent the remainder of his long life trying to ...
The eighth volume of the series, New Beginnings includes 358 documents (chosen from among thousands) that are the most revealing and representative of Edison's work, life, and place in American culture in these years.