The age of Edison : (Record no. 6158)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2012039513
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781594204265
Qualifying information (hardback)
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International Standard Book Number 1594204268
Qualifying information (hardback)
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 0143124447
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9780143124443
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System control number (OCoLC)823294391
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Classification number T173.4
Item number .F74 2013
060 #4 - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE CALL NUMBER
Classification number 303.483 F853a
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 303.48/3097309034
Edition information 23
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 303.483
Item number F853a
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Freeberg, Ernest,
Relator term author.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The age of Edison :
Remainder of title electric light and the invention of modern America /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Ernest Freeberg.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer The Penguin Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2013.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 354 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 24 cm
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490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Penguin history of American life
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other invention, the electric light marked the arrival of modernity. The lightbulb became a catalyst for the nation's transformation from a rural to an urban-dominated culture. City streetlights defined zones between rich and poor, and the electrical grid sharpened the line between town and country. "Bright lights" meant "big city." Like moths to a flame, millions of Americans migrated to urban centers in these decades, leaving behind the shadow of candle and kerosene lamp in favor of the exciting brilliance of the urban streetscape. The Age of Edison places the story of Edison's invention in the context of a technological revolution that transformed America and Europe in these decades. Edison and his fellow inventors emerged from a culture shaped by broad public education, a lively popular press that took an interest in science and technology, and an American patent system that encouraged innovation and democratized the benefits of invention. And in the end, as Freeberg shows, Edison's greatest invention was not any single technology, but rather his reinvention of the process itself. At Menlo Park he gathered the combination of capital, scientific training, and engineering skill that would evolve into the modern research and development laboratory. His revolutionary electrical grid not only broke the stronghold of gas companies, but also ushered in an era when strong, clear light could become accessible to everyone. In The Age of Edison, Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility, in which the greater forces of progress and change are made visible by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects."--
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520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "The Age of Edison places the story of Edison's invention in the context of a technological revolution that transformed America and Europe in these decades. Edison and his fellow inventors emerged from a culture shaped by broad public education, a lively popular press that took an interest in science and technology, and an American patent system that encouraged innovation and democratized the benefits of invention. And in the end, as Freeberg shows, Edison's greatest invention was not any single technology, but rather his reinvention of the process itself. At Menlo Park he gathered the combination of capital, scientific training, and engineering skill that would evolve into the modern research and development laboratory. His revolutionary electrical grid not only broke the stronghold of gas companies, but also ushered in an era when strong, clear light could become accessible to everyone"--
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504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-341) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Edison, Thomas A.
Fuller form of name (Thomas Alva),
Dates associated with a name 1847-1931.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Edison, Thomas A.
Fuller form of name (Thomas Alva),
Dates associated with a name 1847-1931
General subdivision Contemporaries.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Technological innovations
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Technological innovations
General subdivision Social aspects
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Electric lighting
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element HISTORY
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision General.
Source of heading or term bisacsh
600 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Edison, Thomas A.
Fuller form of name (Thomas Alva),
Dates associated with a name 1847-1931
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Authority record control number or standard number (OCoLC)fst00061561
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Contemporaries.
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650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Electric lighting.
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650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Technological innovations.
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650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Technological innovations
General subdivision Social aspects.
Source of heading or term fast
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651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name United States.
Source of heading or term fast
Authority record control number or standard number (OCoLC)fst01204155
650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Gloeilampen.
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650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Elektriciteit.
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650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
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650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Sociale aspecten.
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650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Vernieuwing.
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651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Verenigde Staten.
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600 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Edison, Thomas A.
Fuller form of name (Thomas Alva),
Dates associated with a name 1847-1931.
Source of heading or term sears
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Technological innovations
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
Source of heading or term sears
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Technological innovations
General subdivision Social aspects
-- History.
Source of heading or term sears
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Electric lighting
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
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Genre/form data or focus term History.
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830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Penguin history of American life.
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