Edison

Name: Edison
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Paul Israel
ISBN: 9781433245787

Author: Paul Israel

Narrator: Raymond Todd

Unabridged: 21 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/22/2005

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

Paul Israels ambitious biography brightens the unexamined corners of a singularly influential and triumphant career in science. Thomas Edison, historys most prolific inventor who received an astounding 1,093 U.S. patents, comes to life. Armed with unprecedented access to Edisons workshop diaries, notebooks, and letters, Israel brings fresh insights into how the inventors creative mind worked.

About Paul Israel

Paul Israel is the managing editor of a multivolume documentary edition of the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University and the coauthor of Edison’s Electric Light. He holds a PhD in the history of technology. He lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sergei on March 08, 2019

It's like a list and a schedule of his doings - kind of raw material to extract the data from. I skipped chapters and left in the middle, something I do rarely. And then it is biased, obviously favoring the man, apologetic, but never bringing the other side. And then it feels like much of the backgro......more

Goodreads review by Kelsie on October 02, 2015

This is the ultimate volume on Edison. I never knew how much his inventions really mean to us today. It is very technical in regards to his inventions, which can make it a bit hard to get through.......more

Goodreads review by Edward on March 14, 2018

Edward Fisher March 15, 2018 Edison: A Life of Invention: Goodreads Review: Give a brief synopsis: In Edison: A Life of Invention, the author, Paul Israel, gives a wonderful and captivating biography of Thomas Alva Edison’s life. Throughout this book, Israel describes Edison’s life through the use of e......more

Goodreads review by Andy on June 13, 2023

Author is in charge of the Edison papers at Rutgers, so this work is very thorough. Not many details left out. That does cause the book to drag a bit in places, but I'd rather have too many accurate details than too few estimates.......more

Goodreads review by Ian on June 23, 2018

The most scholarly and authoritative Edison biography.......more