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Author Stross, Randall E.

Title The Wizard of Menlo Park : how Thomas Alva Edison invented the modern world / Randall Stross.

Imprint New York : Crown Publishers, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka Non-Fiction  92 Edison    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 376 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-361) and index.
Contents Success -- Almost famous -- The wizard of Menlo Park -- Flight -- Getting ahead -- Stagecraft -- Immersion -- Life after -- Starting anew -- Battle lost -- Fun -- Kingly privilege -- Friend Ford -- Letting go.
Subject Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
Electrical engineers -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 1400047625
9781400047628
Standard No. YDXCP 2482605

 
    
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