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An informative business history, illuminating Edison the businessman, industrialist, and manager, showing why he succeeded in some areas and failed in others and how he 'straddled the craft culture of the preindustrial age and the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century'
Millard modestly calls this book 'an advance party crossing the vast stretches of the Edison archives.' That it may be, yet his analysis of the rise and decline of the West Orange laboratory is not likely to be superseded.
For anyone wishing to expand, in an accessible yet scholarly way, his or her understanding of this uniquely American icon, this is an excellent point of departure.
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Available
Trim Size
6
x 9
Pages
408
ISBN
9780801847301
Table of Contents
LIst of Tables and Figures
Preface
1. The Largest Laboratory Extant
2. The Machine Shop Culture
3. The Business of Innovation
4. The Phonograph: A Case Study in Research and Development
5. Edison's
LIst of Tables and Figures
Preface
1. The Largest Laboratory Extant
2. The Machine Shop Culture
3. The Business of Innovation
4. The Phonograph: A Case Study in Research and Development
5. Edison's Laboratory and the Electrical industry
6. Diversification in the 1890s
7. Moving Pictures
8. An Industrial Empire
9. Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated
10. The Diamond Disc
11. The Rise of the Organization
12. Business and technology: The Dictating Machine
13. The Impending Conflict
14. The End of an Era
15. The Last Years
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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