Edison's Electric Light / / / Robert Friedel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Friedel, Robert,
• Author: Friedel, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : : Rutgers University Press, , [1986]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 1986
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780813566795; 9783110663334
• DOI: 10.36019/9780813566795
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert Friedel.

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.