Title: Edison ;
Authors: Josephson, Matthew,
Date: 1959
Publisher: McGraw-Hill,
Physical description: 511 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: T
Contents: 1. The Edisons -- 2. Childhood and boyhood -- 3. The wanderyears -- 4. The free-lance inventor -- 5. Pluck-and-luck Edison -- 6. "A bloated eastern manufacturer" -- 7. The inventor and the "Barons" -- 8. Menlo Park -- 9. The legend of the "Wizard" -- 10. Toward the light of the world -- 11. The break-through -- 12. The Edison system -- 13. Pearl Street -- 14. "Science and dollars..." -- 15. The middle years: second marriage -- 16. The Edison laboratory, West Orange -- 17. Formation of General Electric -- 18. Breaking rocks -- 19. Motion pictures -- 20. A stern chase: the storage battery -- 21. Canonization -- 22. Sunset, with electric illuminations.
Subject headings (LCSH): Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.