The Papers of Thomas A. Edison: The Making of an Inventor, February 1847-June 1873

by Thomas A. Edison and Mr. Reese V. Jenkins

The third volume of this widely acclaimed series reveals the breath-taking intensity, intellectual acumen, and vast self-confidence of twenty-nine-year-old Thomas Edison. In the depths of the 1870s depression, he moved his independent research and development laboratory from industrial Newark to pastoral Menlo Park, some fifteen miles to the south on the main line of the railroad from New York to Philadelphia. There, equipped with resources for experimental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801831008
• ISBN13: 9780801831003
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher