Edison - 9780471529422

Edison\nby Paul Israel\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Paul Israel\nTitle: Edison\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Electrical engineering\nPublisher: Wiley\nPublication year: 1998\nISBN-13: 9780471529422\nISBN-10: 0471529427\nRRP: \u00A345.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nFrom the preeminent Edison scholar . . . The definitive life of the inventor of the modern age\n 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.