The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World by Randall E. Stross

The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World

Randall E. Stross

376 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative slow-paced
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Thomas Edison's greatest invention? His own fame.At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as "the Napoleon of invention" and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the...

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