The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
Language: English
Published by The Penguin Press, 2013
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- Hardcover
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This is a Very Solid and very bright Edison Electric Light Invention History Hardback in Very Good++ condition with a Very Good++ jacket. c2013. 1st Edition. 4th Printing. This book is in Very Nice condition both inside and out. It looks lightly read. The cover is Very clean & very bright. The edges are all very good with just a touch of bottom edge wear. The spine ends have a little reading wrinkle. The pages are tight & bright & unmarked, no names. The jacket, with price, is also in Very Nice condition. Very Bright and clean with some light shelf wear. ( No Remainder marks.). Nice Illustrations. 354 Pages. All books are securely packaged and Promptly Mailed. #23941-726.
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- Title
- The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
- Author
- Ernest Freeberg
- Publisher
- The Penguin Press
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1594204268
- ISBN 13
- 9781594204265
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 4th Printing
- Seller catalogs
- American History Books
The lightbulb became a catalyst for the nations transformation from a rural to an urban-dominated culture. City streetlights defined zones between rich and poor, and the electrical grid sharpened the line between town and country. Bright lights meant big city. Like moths to a flame, millions of Americans migrated to urban centers in these decades, leaving behind the shadow of candle and kerosene lamp in favor of the exciting brilliance of the urban streetscape.
The Age of Edison places the story of Edisons invention in the context of a technological revolution that transformed America and Europe in these decades. Edison and his fellow inventors emerged from a culture shaped by broad public education, a lively popular press that took an interest in science and technology, and an American patent system that encouraged innovation and democratized the benefits of invention. And in the end, as Freeberg shows, Edisons greatest invention was not any single technology, but rather his reinvention of the process itself. At Menlo Park he gathered the combination of capital, scientific training, and engineering skill that would evolve into the modern research and development laboratory. His revolutionary electrical grid not only broke the stronghold of gas companies, but also ushered in an era when strong, clear light could become accessible to everyone.
In The Age of Edison, 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. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility, in which the greater forces of progress and change are made visible by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
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