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The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America Paperback - 2014
by Ernest Freeberg
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A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America
The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
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- Title The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
- Author Ernest Freeberg
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Date 2014-01-28
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780143124443 / 0143124447
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Edison, Thomas A, General Electric Company - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.483
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