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The age of Edison : electric light and the invention of modern America / Ernest Freeberg.

By: Freeberg, Ernest.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin history of American life: Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2013Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781594204265 (hardback); 1594204268 (hardback).Subject(s): Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 | Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 -- Contemporaries | Technological innovations -- United States -- History | Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- United States -- History | Electric lighting -- United States -- HistoryDDC classification: 303.48/3097309034
Contents:
Inventing Edison -- Inventing electric light -- Civic light -- Creative destruction: Edison and the gas companies -- Work light -- Leisure light -- Inventive nation -- Looking at inventions, inventing new ways of looking -- Inventing a profession -- The light of civilization -- Exuberance and order -- Illumination science -- Rural light -- Electric light's golden jubilee.
Summary: The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb, which became a catalyst for the nation's transformation from a rural to an urban-dominated culture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inventing Edison -- Inventing electric light -- Civic light -- Creative destruction: Edison and the gas companies -- Work light -- Leisure light -- Inventive nation -- Looking at inventions, inventing new ways of looking -- Inventing a profession -- The light of civilization -- Exuberance and order -- Illumination science -- Rural light -- Electric light's golden jubilee.

The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb, which became a catalyst for the nation's transformation from a rural to an urban-dominated culture.

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