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Randall E. Stross
The Wizard of Menlo Park
How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
Randall E. Stross
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Thomas
Edison’s
greatest
invention?
His
own
fame.At
the
height
of
his
fame
Thomas
Alva
Edison
was
hailed
as
“the
Napoleon
of
invention”
and
blazed
in
the
public
imagination
as
a
virtual
demigod.
Starting
with
the
first
public
demonstrations
of
the
phonograph
in
1878
and
extending
through
the
development
of
incandescent
light
and
the
first
motion
picture
cameras,
Edison’s
name
became
emblematic
of
all
the
wonder
and
promise
of
the
emerging
age
of
technological
marvels.But
as
Randall
Stross
makes
clear
in
this
critical
biography
of
the
man
who
is
arguably
the
most
globally
famous
of
all
Americans,
Thomas
Edison’s
greatest
invention
may
have
been
his
own
celebrity.
Edison
was
certainly
a
technical
genius,
but
Stross
excavates
the
man
from
layers
of
myth-making
and
separates
his
true
achievements
from
his
almost
equally
colossal
failures.
How
much
credit
should
Edison
receive
for
the
various
inventions
that
have
popularly
been
attributed
to
him—and
how
many
of
them
resulted
from
both
the
inspiration
and
the
perspiration
of
his
rivals
and
even
his
own
assistants?This
bold
reassessment
of
Edison’s
life
and
career
answers
this
and
many
other
important
questions
while
telling
the
story
of
how
he
came
upon
his
most
famous
inventions
as
a
young
man
and
spent
the
remainder
of
his
long
life
trying
to
conjure
similar
success.
We
also
meet
his
partners
and
competitors,
presidents
and
entertainers,
his
close
friend
Henry
Ford,
the
wives
who
competed
with
his
work
for
his
attention,
and
the
children
who
tried
to
thrive
in
his
shadow—all
providing
a
fuller
view
of
Edison’s
life
and
times
than
has
ever
been
offered
before.
The
Wizard
of
Menlo
Park
reveals
not
only
how
Edison
worked,
but
how
he
managed
his
own
fame,
becoming
the
first
great
celebrity
of
the
modern age.
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