Edison and the Business of Innovation (Paperback, New Ed)


This is the story of the "other" Thomas Edison--not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Tracing his career from his boyhood to his death in 1931, Edison and the Business of Innovation reveals Edison to be an entrepreneur of extraordinary vision. From extensive research in the Edison archives at West Orange, New Jersey, Andre Millard presents new information about Edison the businessman and provides new interpretations of old issues.


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This is the story of the "other" Thomas Edison--not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Tracing his career from his boyhood to his death in 1931, Edison and the Business of Innovation reveals Edison to be an entrepreneur of extraordinary vision. From extensive research in the Edison archives at West Orange, New Jersey, Andre Millard presents new information about Edison the businessman and provides new interpretations of old issues.

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Johns Hopkins University Press

Country of origin

United States

Series

Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

Release date

September 1993

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

1990

Authors

Dimensions

229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

387

Edition

New Ed

ISBN-13

978-0-8018-4730-1

Barcode

9780801847301

Categories

LSN

0-8018-4730-3



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