TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedel,Robert D.
AU  - Israel,Paul
AU  - Finn,Bernard S.
TI  - Edison's electric light: the art of invention 
T2  - Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of technology
SN  - 9780801894824
AV  - TK4351 .F75 2010
U1  - 621.3092B 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Edison, Thomas A.
KW  - Edison, Thomas A.,
KW  - Edison, Thomas Alva.
KW  - Incandescent lamps
KW  - History
KW  - Inventors
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
KW  - Erfindung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Elektrisches Licht
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - idsbb
N1  - 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
ER  -