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Author: Neil Baldwin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Category: United States
Condition: New
ISBN-13: 9780226035710
ISBN-10: 0226035719

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Edison: Inventing the Century

Name: Edison: Inventing the Century
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: NEW0226035719
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Author: Neil Baldwin
ISBN: 9780226035710

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ISBN: 0226035719

Author: Baldwin, Neil

Condition: New

The genius of America's most prolific inventor, Thomas Edison, is widely acknowledged, and Edison himself has become an almost mythic figure. But how much do we really know about the man who considered deriving rubber from a goldenrod plant as opposed to the genius who gave us electric light? Neil Baldwin gives us a complex portrait of the inventor himself-both myth and man-and a multifaceted account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and irrevocably changed.

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