Edison's Electric Light / / 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 colleagu...
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Friedel, Robert, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Edison's Electric Light / Robert Friedel. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [1986] ©1986 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110663334 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813566795 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813566795 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813566795/original |
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