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The age of Edison : electric light and the invention of modern America / Ernest Freebert.
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.
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- ISBN: 0143124447 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9780143124443 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9781594204265
- ISBN: 1594204268
- Physical Description: 354 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
- Copyright: ©2013
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-341) and index. |
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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 | - |
