The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern AmericaPenguin, 21 févr. 2013 - 368 pages 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. |
Table des matières
PRAISE FOR The Age of Edison | |
Nine The Light of Civilization | |
Ten Exuberance and Order | |
Eleven Illumination Science | |
Twelve Rural Light | |
Epilogue Electric Lights Golden Jubilee | |
Introduction Inventing Edison | |
Five Leisure Light | |
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS | |
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The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America Ernest Freeberg Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |
The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America Ernest Freeberg Aucun aperçu disponible - 2013 |
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