The papers of Thomas A. Edison. / Volume 4, : The Wizard of Menlo Park, 1878 / / edited by Paul B. Israel, Keith A. Neir, and Louis Carlat; editor Reese Jenkins.

This newest volume in the acclaimed Papers of Thomas A. Edison covers one year in the life of America's greatest inventor—1878. That year Edison, whom a New York newspaper in the spring first called "the Wizard of Menlo Park," developed the phonograph, one of his most famous invention...

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Place / Publishing House:Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2014.
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Year of Publication:1998
2014
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (968 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Calendar of Documents; List of Editorial Headnotes; Preface; Chronology of Thomas A. Edison, 1878; Editorial Policy; Editorial Symbols; List of Abbreviations; 1 January-February 1878: (Docs. 1164-1227); 2 March-April 1878: (Docs. 1228-1310); 3 May-June 1878: (Docs. 1311-1369); 4 July-August 1878: (Docs. 1370-1417); 5 September 1878: (Docs. 1418-1463); 6 October 1878: (Docs.1464-1538 ); 7 November 1878: (Docs. 1539-1594); 8 December 1878: (Docs. 1595-1651); Appendix 1. Edison's Autobiographical Notes; Appendix 2. Charles Batchelor's Recollections of Edison
  • Appendix 3. ""Thomas A. Edison"" (Chicago Tribune), by George BlissAppendix 4. Edison's U.S. Patents, 1878; Bibliography; Credits; Index.