000579378 000__ 05238cam\a2200433\i\4500 000579378 001__ 579378 000579378 005__ 20210515012251.0 000579378 008__ 130102s2013\\\\nyua\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000579378 010__ $$a 2012039513 000579378 019__ $$a796756228$$a812958011$$a847482107$$a858531860 000579378 020__ $$a9781594204265$$qhardcover 000579378 020__ $$a1594204268$$qhardcover 000579378 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn823294391 000579378 035__ $$a579378 000579378 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$erda$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dOCLCO$$dUPZ$$dWSN$$dZGH$$dYBM$$dIH8$$dAZZPT$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dBDX$$dJAG$$dCO2$$dOPW$$dNSB$$dVP@$$dCDX$$dEHF$$dYUS$$dFDA$$dNLGGC 000579378 042__ $$apcc 000579378 043__ $$an-us--- 000579378 049__ $$aISEA 000579378 05000 $$aT173.4$$b.F74 2013 000579378 08200 $$a303.48/3097309034$$223 000579378 1001_ $$aFreeberg, Ernest. 000579378 24514 $$aThe age of Edison :$$belectric light and the invention of modern America /$$cErnest Freeberg. 000579378 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bThe Penguin Press,$$c2013. 000579378 300__ $$a354 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c25 cm. 000579378 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000579378 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia 000579378 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier 000579378 4901_ $$aPenguin history of American life 000579378 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 317-341) and index. 000579378 5050_ $$aInventing Edison -- Inventing electric light -- Civic light -- Creative destruction: Edison and the gas companies -- Work light -- Leisure light -- Inventive nation -- Looking at inventions, inventing new ways of looking -- Inventing a profession -- The light of civilization -- Exuberance and order -- Illumination science -- Rural light -- Electric light's golden jubilee. 000579378 520__ $$a"The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other invention, the electric light marked the arrival of modernity. The lightbulb became a catalyst for the nation's transformation from a rural to an urban-dominated culture. City streetlights defined zones between rich and poor, and the electrical grid sharpened the line between town and country. "Bright lights" meant "big city." Like moths to a flame, millions of Americans migrated to urban centers in these decades, leaving behind the shadow of candle and kerosene lamp in favor of the exciting brilliance of the urban streetscape. The Age of Edison places the story of Edison's invention in the context of a technological revolution that transformed America and Europe in these decades. Edison and his fellow inventors emerged from a culture shaped by broad public education, a lively popular press that took an interest in science and technology, and an American patent system that encouraged innovation and democratized the benefits of invention. And in the end, as Freeberg shows, Edison's greatest invention was not any single technology, but rather his reinvention of the process itself. At Menlo Park he gathered the combination of capital, scientific training, and engineering skill that would evolve into the modern research and development laboratory. His revolutionary electrical grid not only broke the stronghold of gas companies, but also ushered in an era when strong, clear light could become accessible to everyone. In The Age of Edison, Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility, in which the greater forces of progress and change are made visible by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects. "--$$cProvided by publisher. 000579378 520__ $$a"The Age of Edison places the story of Edison's invention in the context of a technological revolution that transformed America and Europe in these decades. Edison and his fellow inventors emerged from a culture shaped by broad public education, a lively popular press that took an interest in science and technology, and an American patent system that encouraged innovation and democratized the benefits of invention. And in the end, as Freeberg shows, Edison's greatest invention was not any single technology, but rather his reinvention of the process itself. At Menlo Park he gathered the combination of capital, scientific training, and engineering skill that would evolve into the modern research and development laboratory. His revolutionary electrical grid not only broke the stronghold of gas companies, but also ushered in an era when strong, clear light could become accessible to everyone"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000579378 60010 $$aEdison, Thomas A.$$q(Thomas Alva),$$d1847-1931. 000579378 60010 $$aEdison, Thomas A.$$q(Thomas Alva),$$d1847-1931$$xContemporaries. 000579378 650_0 $$aTechnological innovations$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 000579378 650_0 $$aTechnological innovations$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 000579378 650_0 $$aElectric lighting$$zUnited States$$xHistory. 000579378 830_0 $$aPenguin history of American life. 000579378 85200 $$bgen$$hT173.4$$i.F74$$i2013 000579378 85642 $$3Cover image$$uftp://ppftpuser:welcome@ftp01.penguingroup.com/Booksellers and Media/Covers/2008_2009_New_Covers/9781594204265.jpg 000579378 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:579378$$pGLOBAL_SET 000579378 980__ $$aBIB 000579378 980__ $$aBOOK