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Thomas Alva Edison

Milan (Ohio) 11.2.1847- West Orange (New Jersey) 18.10.1931)
 
 Bibliographie
   
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)
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)
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):
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);