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Thomas Alva Edison

   
Milan (Ohio) 11.2.1847-West Orange (New Jersey) 18.10.1931)
       
 


Bibliografia
     


 



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)

1986

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)

1987

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): 4–12.

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

Neil Baldwin, Edison: Inventing The Century (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);