Edison
Edmund Morris
Explore the life of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history, in this revelatory new biography. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris deconstructs the Edison of mythological memory to showcase the unknown philosopher, futurist, chemist, botanist, defense adviser, and founder of nearly 250 companies. With interpretive acuity and literary elegance, Morris offers proof of Edison's mutually admiring, if wary, relationship with Nikola Tesla and brings the near-deaf inventor, husband, and father of six to life on the page through seven years of research among original documents and family papers. Edison's fifty-year obsession with recording technology and pioneering advances in the synchronization of movies and sound are also explored in this overdue biography.
Publish Date
2019-10-22T00:00:00.000Z
2019-10-22T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.54
ISBN
9780812993110
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2020-04-18T16:19:40.000Z
On perhaps the greatest American builder of all, the builder who brought electricity to us all, Thomas Edison. – source