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Edison - His Life and Inventions
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, “It is designed in these pages to bring the reader face to face with Edison; to glance at an interesting childhood and a youthful period marked by a capacity for doing things, and by an insatiable thirst for knowledge; then to accompany him into the great creative stretch of forty years, during which he has done so much."
A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, “It is designed in these pages to bring the reader face to face with Edison; to glance at an interesting childhood and a youthful period marked by a capacity for doing things, and by an insatiable thirst for knowledge; then to accompany him into the great creative stretch of forty years, during which he has done so much."
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Community Reviews
This man, not this book, is notable. Amazing. Never tiring Edison kept creating with only short spurts of sleep each day. His imagination ran rampant all his days at least into 1910 when this book was written. A chemist and a vendor of newspapers on commuter trains in Michigan long before he got his
Very good biography as to what type of person he was. I think the body of the book had too much technical explanations that an average reader, not an engineer, found overwhelming. The appendix took an engineer to understand
Too much detail, too little where it was really needed. Yawn
Detailed. Contemporary. The Noble side of an inventor-entrepreneur
The book throws a remarkable insight into the life of Edison starting from his childhood days. Edison genius was in the extraordinary effort that he put into all his inventions combined with his eye for detail and uncompromising desire for perfection. The book is a long read since it goes in to a lo
Interesting, I little too much detail.
Dated since it was written in 1910 and biased since the author was in awe of Edison. I enjoyed portions of it but other sections dragged on. I would recommend it to others though and the price is right!