TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedel,Robert
TI  - Edison's Electric Light
SN  - 9780813566795
U1  - 621.32/2 19/eng/20240417
PY  - 1986///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813566795
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813566795
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813566795/original
ER  -