Thomas A. Edison and the modernization of America /
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| Author / Creator: | Melosi, Martin V., 1947- |
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| Imprint: | [s.l.] : Harper Collins Pub., c1990. |
| Description: | ix, 221 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of American biography |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1139748 |
Table of Contents:
- Editor's Preface
- Author's Preface
- On the Urban Frontier Itinerant Telegrapher
- An Inventorrsquo;s Apprenticeship
- Invention Factory Success in a Cotton Thread
- Electrifying the World Gilded Age Industrialist
- The Persistence of Vision
- The Corporate Image
- The Wizard at War Twilight Years Legacy
- Study and Discussion Questions
- A Note on the Sources
- Index
