The papers of Thomas A. Edison.

The papers of Thomas A. Edison. / Volume 1, : The making of an inventor, February 1847-June 1874 / / editors, Reese V. Jenkins, Leonard S. Reich, Paul B. Israel, Toby Appel, Andrew J. Butrica, Robert A. Rosenberg, Keith A. Nier, Melodie Andrews, Thomas E. Jeffrey.

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Winner of the Association of American Publishers's Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing, Architecture and Urban Planning AwardThe Making of an Inventor, volume 1 of the monumental The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, takes us through Edison's life from early childhood to age twen...

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VerfasserIn:
Edison, Thomas A. 1847-1931,
TeilnehmendeR:
Jenkins, Reese,
Reich, Leonard S.,
Israel, Paul,
Appel, Toby A., 1945-,
Butrica, Andrew J.,
Rosenberg, Robert A.,
Nier, Keith A.,
Andrews, Melodie,
Jeffrey, Thomas Edward
Place / Publishing House:Baltimore : : The Johns Hopkins University Press,, [1989]
©1989
Year of Publication:1989
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (777 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Calendar of Documents; Preface; Introduction; Chronology of Thomas A. Edison, 1847-1873; Thomas A. Edison and His Papers; Editorial Policy; Editorial Symbols; List of Abbreviations; 1 Edison's Boyhood and Itinerant Years: February 1847-March 1868 (Docs. 1-26); 2 The Nascent Inventor: March-December 1868 (Docs. 27-50); 3 From Operator to Inventor-Entrepreneur: January-June 1869 (Docs. 51-69); 4 Establishing Connections in New York: July-December 1869 (Docs. 70-88); 5 New Alliances: January-June 1870 (Docs. 89-101)
  • 6 Expansion and Diversification: July-December 1870 (Docs. 102-135)7 New Resources: January-June 1871 (Docs. 135A-274); 8 Innumerable Machines in the Mind: July-December 1871 (Docs. 175-214); 9 An Inventive Flurry: January-June 1872 (Docs. 215-263); 10 The Ascendancy of Manufacturing: July-December 1872 (Docs. 264-279); 11 Multiple Efforts: January-April 1873 (Docs. 280-317); 12 The English Venture: May-June 1873 (Docs. 318-340); Appendix 1. Edison's Autobiographical Notes; Appendix 2. Bibliographic Essay: Edison's Boyhood and Itinerant Years; Appendix 3. The American Patent System
  • Appendix 4. Edison's U.S. Patents, 1868-1873
  • Bibliography; Credits; Index

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