The item you selected is unavailable, but we found something similar.

Picture 1 of 1

Stock photo

Edison: A Life of Invention by Paul Israel (English) Paperback Book - Picture 1 of 1

Edison: A Life of Invention by Paul Israel (Paperback, 2000)

Be the first towrite a review.

thenilestore (1211825)
98.2% positive Feedback

Price:

AU $71.18

Free postage

Estimated delivery Tue, 28 May - Mon, 3 Jun

Returns:

30-day returns. Buyer pays for return postage.

Condition:

Brand new

New Scientist "Remarkable.". "Israel's book should go a long way toward taking Edison out of the shadows and placing him in the proper light.". --New Scientist"Exhaustive. Israel's book should go a long way toward taking Edison out of the shadows and placing him in the proper light.

About this product

Product Information

From the preeminent Edison scholar . . . The definitive life of the inventor of the modern age The conventional story is so familiar and reassuring that it has come to read more like American myth than history: With only three months of formal education, a curious and hardworking young man beats the odds and becomes one of the greatest inventors in history. Not only does he invent the phonograph and the first successful electric light bulb, but he also establishes the first electrical power distribution company and lays the technological groundwork for today's movies, telephones, and sound recording industry. Through relentless tinkering, by trial and error, the story goes, Thomas Alva Edison perseveres-and changes the world. In the revelatory Edison: A Life of Invention, author Paul Israel exposes and enriches this one-dimensional view of the solitary Wizard of Menlo Park, expertly situating his subject within a thoroughly realized portrait of a burgeoning country on the brink of massive change. The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed the birth of corporate America, and with it the newly overlapping interests of scientific, technological, and industrial cultures. Working against the common perception of Edison as a symbol of a mythic American past where persistence and individuality yielded hard-earned success, Israel demonstrates how Edison's remarkable career was actually very much a product of the inventor's fast-changing era. Edison drew widely from contemporary scientific knowledge and research, and was a crucial figure in the transformation of invention into modern corporate research and collaborative development. Informed by more than five million pages of archival documents, Paul Israel's ambitious life of Edison brightens the unexamined corners of a singularly influential and triumphant career in science. In these pages, history's most prolific inventor-he received an astounding 1,093 U.S. patents-comes to life as never before. Edison is the only biography to cover the whole of Edison's career in invention, including his early, foundational work in telegraphy. Armed with unprecedented access to Edison's workshop diaries, notebooks, and letters, Israel brings fresh insights into how the inventor's creative mind worked. And for the first time, much attention is devoted to his early family life in Ohio and Michigan-where the young Edison honed his entrepreneurial sense and eye for innovation as a newsstand owner and editor of a weekly newspaper-underscoring the inventor's later successes with new resonance and pathos. In recognizing the inventor's legacy as a pivotal figure in the second Industrial Revolution, Israel highlights Edison's creation of the industrial research laboratory, driven by intricately structured teams of researchers. The efficient lab forever changed the previously serendipitous art of workshop invention into something regular, predictable, and very attractive to corporate business leaders. Indeed, Edison's collaborative research model became the prototype upon which today's research firms and think tanks are based. The portrait of Thomas Alva Edison that emerges from this peerless biography is of a man of genius and astounding foresight. It is also a portrait rendered with incredible care, depth, and dimension, rescuing our century's godfather of invention from myth and simplification. Advance Praise for Edison: A Life of Invention Familiar Edison stories come alive with fresh insight . . . Israel's scholarship is impeccable while his deceptively easy grace transforms a challenging story into a page turner. One hundred years of history texts have been right all along. Thomas Edison, a protean actor on the American landscape, requires our attention. Paul Israel has given us a book to satisfy that requirement for a long time to come. - John M. Staudenmaier, S.J., Editor, Technology and Culture

Product Identifiers

Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN-13
9780471362708
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94530687

Product Key Features

Subject Area
Electrical Engineering
Author
Paul Israel
Publication Name
Edison: Alife of Invention
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Engineering & Technology, Science, Evolution
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
560 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
235mm
Item Width
163mm
Item Weight
848g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Paul Israel
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

All listings for this product

item 1 Edison: A Life of Invention by Paul Israel (English) Paperback Book
AU $71.18
Free postage
item 2 Paul Israel Edison (Paperback) (US IMPORT)
AU $80.77
Free postage
item 3 Paul Israel Edison (Paperback)
AU $89.62
Free postage

Best Selling in Adult Learning & University

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Adult Learning & University

Australian Guidebook for Structural Engineers by Lonnie Pack (Paperback, 2019)
No ratings or reviews yet.
AU $84.19 New
---- Used
Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Religious Studies Route B: Catholic Christianity and Judaism by Deirdre Cleary, Andrew Barron, Joy White, Patrick Harrison (Paperback, 2017)
No ratings or reviews yet.
AU $100.97 New
---- Used
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (Paperback, 2007)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 1 product rating
AU $30.02 New
---- Used

Save on Adult Learning & University

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Adult Learning & University

The Australian Native Bee Hive Book: Keeping Stingless Sugarbag OATH Tim Heard
AU $31.98
Trending at AU $35.57
Weed Forager's Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in Australia by A
AU $19.95
Trending at AU $20.66
Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: Classic Regional Approach
AU $113.94
Trending at AU $122.14
The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your
AU $49.95
Trending at AU $57.84
Tuning the A-Series Engine: the Definitive Manual on tuning for Performance or E
AU $95.34
Trending at AU $104.01
George Hrabovsky Leonard Susskind Classical Mechanics (Paperback)
AU $27.49
Trending at AU $31.59

Shop by category

Picture 1 of 1

Edison: A Life of Invention by Paul Israel (Paperback, 2000)

About this product

Product Information

Product Identifiers

Product Key Features

Dimensions

Additional Product Features

All listings for this product

item 1 Edison: A Life of Invention by Paul Israel (English) Paperback Book

item 2 Paul Israel Edison (Paperback) (US IMPORT)

item 3 Paul Israel Edison (Paperback)

Best Selling in Adult Learning & University

Australian Guidebook for Structural Engineers by Lonnie Pack (Paperback, 2019)

Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Religious Studies Route B: Catholic Christianity and Judaism by Deirdre Cleary, Andrew Barron, Joy White, Patrick Harrison (Paperback, 2017)

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (Paperback, 2007)

Save on Adult Learning & University

The Australian Native Bee Hive Book: Keeping Stingless Sugarbag OATH Tim Heard

Weed Forager's Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in Australia by A

Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: Classic Regional Approach

The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your

Tuning the A-Series Engine: the Definitive Manual on tuning for Performance or E

George Hrabovsky Leonard Susskind Classical Mechanics (Paperback)

You may also like

Inventions Non-Fiction Paperback Fiction & Books

Israel Maps & Atlases

Non-Fiction Family Life Paperback Fiction & Books

Inventions Non-Fiction Hardcover Books

Paperbacks 2000-2009 Publication Year

Non-Fiction Inventions Fiction & Non-Fiction Books