Edison's electric light : the art of invention / Robert Friedel and Paul Israel with Bernard S. Finn.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of technologyPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.Edition: [Johns Hopkins ed.]Description: x, 233 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780801894824
  • 0801894824
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 621.3092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • TK4351 .F75 2010
Contents:
1. "A Big Bonanza" -- 2. "The Throes of Invention" -- The Search for a Vacuum -- 3. "Some Difficult Requirements" -- Carbon and the Incandescent Lamp -- 4. The Triumph of Carbon -- Who Invented the Incandescent Lamp? -- 5. Business and Science -- The Menlo Park Mystique -- 6. A System Complete -- 7. Promises Fulfilled.
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Revised edition of Edison's electric light / Robert Friedel & Paul Israel with Bernard S. Finn. 1986.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index.

1. "A Big Bonanza" -- 2. "The Throes of Invention" -- The Search for a Vacuum -- 3. "Some Difficult Requirements" -- Carbon and the Incandescent Lamp -- 4. The Triumph of Carbon -- Who Invented the Incandescent Lamp? -- 5. Business and Science -- The Menlo Park Mystique -- 6. A System Complete -- 7. Promises Fulfilled.

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