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The age of Edison : electric light and the invention of modern America / Ernest Freebert.

Freeberg, Ernest. (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0143124447 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 9780143124443 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 9781594204265
  • ISBN: 1594204268
  • Physical Description: 354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-341) and index.
Subject: Technological innovations > United States > History
Technological innovations > Social aspects > United States > History.
Electric lighting > United States > History.
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 > Contemporaries.
Edison Electric Light Company > History.
General Electric Company > History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Columbia Gorge Community College. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Columbia Gorge Community College Library.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Columbia Gorge Community College Library SOCIAL SCIENCES FREEB 2013 (Text) 33892002486950 Main Collection Available -


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