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			Thomas Alva Edison
			Milan (Ohio) 11.2.1847-West Orange (New Jersey) 18.10.1931)

			Bibliography

	1876		W. Bernard Carlson and Michael E. Gorman, "Thinking and Doing at Menlo Park: Edison's Development of the Telephone, 1876–1878" in Pretzer, Working at Inventing and "A Cognitive Framework to Understand Technological Creativity: Bell,

	1894		Dickson, W. K. and Dickson, A. Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison. New York: Thomas Crowell, 1894.

	1910		Dyer, Frank Lewis, and Thomas C. Martin, Edison, His Life and Inventions. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910.

	1929		Frank L. Dyer and Thomas C. Martin, with William H. Meadowcroft, Edison: His Life and Inventions 2 vols. (New York: Harper & Bros., 1910; rev. ed. 1929)

	1934		Adams, W. S. Edison: His Life, His Work, His Genius. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs Merrill, 1934

	1958		Hughes, "Harold P. Brown and the Executioner's Current: An Incident in the AC-DC Controversy," Business History Review 32 (1958): 143–65;

	1959		Josephson, Matthew. Edison: A Biography. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1959.

	1971		Byron Vanderbilt, Thomas Edison, Chemist (Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1971)

	1976		Oliver Read and Walter L. Welch, From Tin Foil to Stereo: The Evolution of the Phonograph (Indianapolis: Howard Sams & Co., 1976).

	1976		Terry Reynolds and Theodore Bernstein, "The Damnable Alternating Current," Proceedings of the IEEE 64 (1976): 1339–43;

	1977		Hughes, "Edison's Method" in William B. Pickett, ed., Technology at the Turning Point (San Francisco: San Francisco Press, 1977): 5–22;

	1979		Edison's personality and family relations are Robert Conot, A Streak of Luck (New York: Seaview Press, 1979)

	1979		Conot, Robert. Thomas A. Edison: A Streak of Luck. New York: Da Capo Press, Inc., 1979

	1979		Hughes, "The Electrification of America: The System Builders," Technology and Culture 20 (1979): 124–61

	1979		Bernard Finn, Robert Friedel, Edison: Lighting a Revolution, exhibition catalog (1979)

	1980		David A. Hounshell, "Edison and the Pure Science Ideal in 19th-Century America," Science 207 (1980): 612-17

	1981		Wyn Wachhorst, Thomas Alva Edison: An American Myth (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1981)

	1981		Wachhorst, Wyn. Thomas Alva Edison, an American Myth. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1981.

	1981		Margaret Cousins, The Story of Thomas Alva Edison (1981)

	1982		Richard H. Schallenberg, Bottled Energy: Electrical Engineering and the Evolution of Chemical Energy Storage (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1982);

	1983		Thomas Parke Hughes, Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983)

	1983		W. Bernard Carlson, "Edison in the Mountains: The Magnetic Ore Separation Venture, 1879–1900," History of Technology 8 (1983): 37–59;

	1984		Paul M. Dennis, "The Edison Questionnaire," Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 20 (1984): 23–37.

	1985		Robert Friedel, Paul Israel, with Bernard Finn, Edison's Electric Light: The Biography of an Invention (1985)

	1985		Carol Greene, Thomas Alva Edison, Bringer of Light (1985)

			Electric Light and Power Robert Friedel and Paul Israel, with Bernard S. Finn, Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1986)

			James D. Newton, Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1987).

	1987		Leonard Reich, "Edison, Coolidge, and Langmuir: Evolving Approaches to American Industrial Research," Journal of Economic History 47 (June 1987): 341–51

	1987		On the battle of the systems see W. Bernard Carlson and A. J. Millard, "Defining Risk within a Business Context: Thomas A. Edison, Elihu Thomson, and the A.C.-D.C. Controversy, 1885–1900" in B. B. Johnson and V. T. Covello, eds., The Social and Cultural Construction of Risk (Boston: Reidel Publishing Co., 1987): 275–93

	1987		John Harvith and Susan Edwards Harvith, eds. Edison, Musicians and the Phonograph: A Century in Retrospect (New York: Greenwood Press, 1987)

	1988		W. Bernard Carlson, "Thomas Edison as a Manager of R&D: The Case of the Alkaline Storage Battery, 1895–1915," IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 7 (Dec. 1988):

	1989		William S. Pretzer, ed., Working at Inventing: Thomas Edison and the Menlo Park Experience (Dearborn, Mich.: Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, 1989);

	1989		Terry Reynolds and Theodore Bernstein, "Edison and the 'Chair,'" IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 8 (1989): 19–28.

	1989		William Pretzer (editor), Working at Invention: Thomas A. Edison and the Menlo Park Experience (1989)

	1990		Andre J. Millard, Edison and the Business of Invention (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1990);

	1990		Martin V. Melosi, Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America (Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education, 1990)

	1990		Jehl, Francis. Menlo Park Reminiscences. New York: Dover Publications, 1990.

	1990		Millard, Andre. Edison and the Business of Innovation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990

	1991		W. Bernard Carlson, "Building Thomas Edison's Laboratory at West Orange, New Jersey: A Case Study in Using Craft Knowledge for Technological Invention, 1886–1888," History of Technology 13 (1991): 150-67.

	1991		Paul A. David, "The Hero and the Herd in Technological History: Reflections on Thomas Edison and the Battle of the Systems," in Patrice Higgonet et al., eds., Technology, Growth, and Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1991): 72–119;

	1991		Brian Bowers, "Edison and early electrical engineering in Britain," History of Technology 13 (1991): 168–80;

	1991		Michael Peterson, "Thomas Edison, Failure," American Heritage of Invention & Technology 6 (Winter 1991): 8–14.

	1991		H.Ward Jandl, et al, Yesterday's Houses of Tomorrow: Innovative American Homes 1850–1950 (Washington D.C.: Preservation Press, 1991):

	1991		Paul Israel and Robert Rosenberg, "Patent Office Records as a Historical Source: The Case of Thomas Edison," Technology and Culture 32 (1991): 1094–1101

	1992		Matthew Josephson, Edison: A Biography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959; reprint New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1992).

	1992		Bowers,"Edison and Hopkinson: Transatlantic Relations in Electrical Engineering in the Early 1880s" in Monique Trédé, ed., Électricité et électrification dans le monde (Paris: Presses Univ. de France, 1992)

	1992		Josephson, M. Edison: A Biography. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992.

	1992		Paul Israel, From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and the Changing Context of American Invention, 1830–1920 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).

	1992		David, "Heroes, Herds, and Hysteresis in Technological History: Thomas Edison and 'The Battle of the Systems' Reconsidered," Industrial and Corporate Change v. 1, no. 1, 1992, p. 129–80

	1992		Edison, and the Telephone" in Robert J. Weber, Inventive Minds: Creativity in Technology (New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1992).

	1992		Andre Millard, "Thomas Edison, the Battle of the Systems and the Persistence of Direct Current," Material History Bulletin 36 (Fall 1992): 18–28;

	1995		Neil Baldwin, Edison: Inventing the Century (New York: Hyperion, 1995)

	1995		DeGraaf, "Confronting the Mass Market: Thomas Edison and the Entertainment Phonograph,"Business and Economic History 24 (1995): 88–96;

	1995		Emily Thompson, "Machines, Music, and the Quest for Fidelity: Marketing the Edison Phonograph in America, 1877–1925," Musical Quarterly 79 (Spring 1995): 131–71

	1995		Marsha Siefert, "Aesthetics, Technology, and the Capitalization of Culture: How the Talking Machine Became a Musical Instrument," Science in Context 8 (Summer 1995): 417–49;

	1995		Baldwin, N. Edison: Inventing the Century. New York: Hyperion, 1995.

	1995		Walter G. Vincenti, "The Technical Shaping of Technology: Real-World Constraints and Technical Logic in Edison's Electrical Lighting System," Social Studies of Science 25 (Feb. 1995): 553–74;

	1995		X-Rays George D. Tselos, "New Jersey's Thomas Edison and the Fluoroscope," New Jersey Medicine 92 (Nov. 1995): 731–33.

	1996		Portia Dadley, "The Garden of Edison: Invention and the American Imagination," in Francis Spufford and Jenny Uglow, eds., Cultural Babbage: Technology, Time and Invention (London: Faber & Faber, 1996) : p.81–98;

	1996		Michael Peterson, "Thomas Edison's Concrete House," Invention and Technology 11 (Winter 1996): 50–56.

	1996		Jill E. Cooper, "Intermediaries and Invention: Business Agents and the Edison Electric Pen and Duplicating Press," Business and Economic History 25 (1996): 130–42.

	1996		Robert Fox, "Thomas Edison's Parisian Campaign: Incandescent Lighting and the Hidden Face of Technology Transfer," Annals of Science 53 (1996): 157–93;

	1997		Thomas Alva Edison: Inventing the Electric Age (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)

	1997		Olav Thulesius, Edison in Florida: The Green Laboratory (Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 1997);

	1997		George Tselos and Douglas Tarr, "The Napoleon of Invention," NARAS Journal 8 (Winter–Spring 1997–98): 13–27;

	1997		Edward Jay Pershey, "Drawing as a Means to Inventing: Edison and the Invention of the Phonograph in Pretzer, Working at Inventing; Paul Israel, "The Unknown History of the Tinfoil Phonograph," NARAS Journal 8 (Winter–Spring 1997–98):29–42;

	1997		Leonard DeGraaf, "Thomas Edison and the Origins of the Entertainment Phonograph," NARAS Journal 8 (Winter–Spring 1997–98): 43–70;

	1997		Emily Thompson, "Is It Real or Is It a Machine?" American Heritage of Invention & Technology 12 (Winter 1997): 50–56;

	1998		Paul Israel, Edison: A Life of Invention (New York: John Wiley, 1998)

	1999		Bazerman, Charles, The Languages of Edison's Light (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999);

	1999		Lisa Gitelman, Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999);

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