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Edison's Electric Light / Robert Friedel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [1986]Copyright date: ©1986Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813566795
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 621.32/2 19/eng/20240417
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: History and Invention -- 1 "A Big Bonanza" -- 2 "The Throes of Invention" -- 3 "Some Difficult Requirements" -- 4 The Triumph of Carbon -- 5 Business and Science -- 6 A System Complete -- 7 Promises Fulfilled -- 8 Afterword -- Bibliographical Note -- Notes -- Index
Summary: So encrusted with folklore has Edison's invention of the electric light become that we may be hard-pressed to recognize its significance. This account, unlike others, focuses on the invention rather than the inventor to remind us how extraordinary an achievement it was. Friedel and his colleagues draw chiefly on notes, calculations, and sketches from Edison's laboratory notebooks as well as other contemporary records to re-create the process of invention. Eminently readable and meticulously researched, this illustrated volume is a scholarly work of high order. It belongs in every research collection and in most general collections as well.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780813566795

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: History and Invention -- 1 "A Big Bonanza" -- 2 "The Throes of Invention" -- 3 "Some Difficult Requirements" -- 4 The Triumph of Carbon -- 5 Business and Science -- 6 A System Complete -- 7 Promises Fulfilled -- 8 Afterword -- Bibliographical Note -- Notes -- Index

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So encrusted with folklore has Edison's invention of the electric light become that we may be hard-pressed to recognize its significance. This account, unlike others, focuses on the invention rather than the inventor to remind us how extraordinary an achievement it was. Friedel and his colleagues draw chiefly on notes, calculations, and sketches from Edison's laboratory notebooks as well as other contemporary records to re-create the process of invention. Eminently readable and meticulously researched, this illustrated volume is a scholarly work of high order. It belongs in every research collection and in most general collections as well.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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