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The age of Edison : electric light and the invention of modern America
- Title
- The age of Edison : electric light and the invention of modern America / Ernest Freebert.
- Author
- Freeberg, Ernest.
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- 354 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Summary
- A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America. The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison , award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison's invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
- Series Statement
- The Penguin history of American life
- Uniform Title
- Penguin history of American life.
- Subjects
- Edison, Thomas A (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
- Electric lighting > United States > History
- Technological innovations > United States > History
- Electric lighting > Social aspects > United States > History
- Edison, Thomas A (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 > Contemporaries
- Edison Electric Light Company History
- Technological innovations > Social aspects > United States > History
- General Electric Company History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-341) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Inventing Edison -- 2. Inventing electric light -- 3. Civic light -- Creative destruction: Edison and the gas companies -- 4. Work light -- 5. Leisure light -- 6. Inventive nation -- 7. Looking at inventions, inventing new ways of looking -- 8. Inventing a profession -- 9. The light of civilization -- 10. Exuberance and order -- 11. Illumination science -- 12. Rural light -- Epilogue. Electric light's golden jubilee.
- Call Number
- JBD 14-311
- ISBN
- 0143124447 (paperback)
- 9780143124443 (paperback)
- 9781594204265 (canceled/invalid)
- 1594204268 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 849718969
- Author
- Freeberg, Ernest.
- Title
- The age of Edison : electric light and the invention of modern America / Ernest Freebert.
- Publisher
- New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Penguin history of American lifePenguin history of American life.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-341) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JBD 14-311