The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World, Paperback/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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