The life and work of Thomas Edison / Rudolph Valier Alvarado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alvarado, Rudolph Valier.

Series:

Critical lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.

Edison, Thomas A.

Inventors--United States--Biography.

Inventors.

United States.

Electrical engineers--United States--Biography.

Electrical engineers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, IN : Alpha, [2002]

Summary:

-- Thomas Edison: The Candy Butcher and the Paper Boy

-- From Boy to Adventurer

-- The Inventor Comes of Age

-- Strange Luck, or Brilliant Mind

-- Menlo Park: The Invention Factory

-- The Wizard of Menlo Park

-- Turning off Darkness, Turning on Light

-- The Edison System

-- Pearl Street, New York

-- A New Laboratory, a New Family

-- Forming General Electric

-- Breaking Rocks, Making Movies

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0028642295

OCLC:

48417796