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100 1 $aStross, Randall E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85272820
245 14 $aThe Wizard of Menlo Park :$bhow Thomas Alva Edison invented the modern world /$cRandall Stross.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bCrown Publishers,$c[2007], ©2007.
300 $a376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-361) and index.
520 1 $a"As Randall Stross makes clear in this critical biography of the man who is arguably the most globally famous of all Americans, Thomas Edison's greatest invention may have been his own celebrity. Edison was certainly a technical genius, but Stross excavates the man from layers of myth-making and separates his true achievements from his almost equally colossal failures. How much credit should Edison receive for the various inventions that have popularly been attributed to him - and how many of them resulted from both the inspiration and the perspiration of his rivals and even his own assistants? How much of Edison's technical skill helped him overcome a lack of business acumen and feel for consumers' wants and needs?" "This bold reassessment of Edison's life and career answers these and many other important questions while telling the story of how he came upon his most famous inventions as a young man and spent the remainder of his long life trying to conjure similar success."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aEdison, Thomas A.$q(Thomas Alva),$d1847-1931.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126308
650 0 $aInventors$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104575
650 0 $aElectrical engineers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102898
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006028808.html
852 00 $bmil$hTK140.E3$iS76 2007