Edison
Edmund Morris writes about a man who was arguably the most famous in the world when he died in 1931, so revered for his perfection of the incandescent light bulb that President Hoover proposed darkening the entire United States for one minute on the night of his funeral. For the rest of the twentieth century, Edison's image, polished by his additional fame as the inventor of the phonograph, the Kinetoscope moving-picture camera, and the rechargeable alkaline battery, solidified into marble, cold to the touch and impossible to penetrate.
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- ISBN: 9780593153673
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Physical Description
sound disc
20 audio discs (25 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. - Edition Unabridged.
- Publisher New York, New York : Random House Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, [2019]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. GMD: sound recording. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Botany (1920-1929) -- Defense (1910-1919) -- Power (1900-1909) -- Magnetism (1890-1899) -- Light (1880-1889) -- Sound (1870-1879) -- Telegaphy (1860-1869) -- Natural philosophy (1847-1859). |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Arthur Morey. |