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Title: Edison: Inventing the Century by Neil Baldwin ISBN: 0-226-03571-9 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Z-zzzzz
Comment: If this is your first look into Thomas Edison, find a different book. It was a constant struggle to finish this one, I had to force myself to go on. A cure for insomnia
Rating: 2
Summary: There must be a better Edison book
Comment: I stopped reading this book after about 150 pages, and resolved to find a better Edison biography. I had two problems with the book:
1. The writing is a bit muddled. For example, we find Edison at age 23 running an "invention factory" with 50 or so employees housed in a four story building in Newark. There is almost no explaination of how he got the backing to set up such an enterprise.
2. The author does not seem to have much understanding of the science behind Edison's work. He makes no attempt to explain how any of Edison's inventions operated - no diagrams or drawings, and he seems confused about the difference between electricty and magnetism.
The author's background is in poetry. At the risk of sounding mean-spirited, I think that an Edison biography is not a good fit for him.
Rating: 1
Summary: Edison not the man he's told to be
Comment: Edison may very well be on of the best business men of his century but he certainly did not "Invent the Century". His inventions are already being made obsolete by others. The light bulb is second to the flouresent light, the phonagraph was bettered several times, and also Edison took a lot of others ideas and called them his own. He was a cheat and a liar and this book very poorly described him.
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Title: Edison: A Life of Invention by Paul Israel ISBN: 0471362700 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 11 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: At Work With Thomas Edison: 10 Business Lessons from America's Greatest Innovator by Blaine McCormick, John P. Keegan ISBN: 1891984357 Publisher: Entrepreneur Media Inc. Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel, and Charles Lindbergh by James D. Newton ISBN: 0156926202 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: June, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Edison : A Biography by Matthew Josephson ISBN: 0471548065 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 11 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Thomas Edison and Modern America: A Brief History With Documents by Theresa M. Collins, Lisa Gitelman, Gregory Jankunis, Collins Gitelman Jankunis ISBN: 0312247346 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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