(Bell), James Mackay (1998).
Alexander Graham Bell: A Life.
(New York, NY: Wiley, p.). Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922;
Inventors--United States--Biography.
(Bell), Charlotte Gray (2006).
Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention.
(New York, NY: Arcade Pub., 480 p.). Bell, Alexander Graham,
1847-1922; Inventors--United States--Biography.
Creation of the device, projects pursued once his future was secured.
(Electric Light), Francis Arthur Jones (1931). The Life Story of
Thomas Alva Edison. (New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 405 p.).
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.
(Edison), William A. Simonds (1934).
Edison; His Life, His Work,
His Genius. (Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 364 p.).
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.
(Electric Light), Matthew Josephson (1959).
Edison: A Biography.
(New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 511 p.). Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva),
1847-1931.
(Electric Light), Ronald W. Clark (1977).
Edison: The Man Who Made
the Future. (London, UK: Macdonald and Jane's, 256 p.). Edison,
Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Electric engineers -- United States
-- Biography; Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
(Electric Light), Robert Conot (1979).
A Streak of Luck. (New
York, NY: Seaview Books, 565 p.). Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva),
1847-1931; Inventors -- United States -- Biography; Electric engineers
-- United States -- Biography.
(Electric Light), Wyn Wachhorst (1981).
Thomas Alva Edison, an
American Myth. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 328 p.). Edison, Thomas A.
(Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
(Electric Light), Robert Friedel & Paul Israel with Bernard S. Finn
(1986).
Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention. (New
Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 263 p.). Edison, Thomas A.
(Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Incandescent lamps.
(Edison), editors Reese V. Jenkins ... [et al.] (1989).
The Papers
of Thomas A. Edison: The Making of an Inventor : February 1847-June 1873. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,
4 vols.). Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Edison, Thomas A.
(Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 --Archives; Inventors--United
States--Biography.
(Electric Light), Andre Millard (1990).
Edison and the Business of
Innovation. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 387 p.).
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Inventors--United
States--Biography; Businesspeople--United States--Biography. Series:
Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
(Electric Light), Neil Baldwin (1995).
Edison, Inventing the
Century. (New York, NY: Hyperion, 531 p.). Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas
Alva), 1847-1931; Inventors -- United States -- Biography; Electric
engineering -- United States -- History.
(Electric Light), Paul Israel (1998).
Edison A Life of Invention.
(New York, NY: Wiley, 552 p.). Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva)
1847-1931; Inventors--United States--Biography.
(TV), David E. Fisher and Marshall Jon Fisher (1996).
Tube: The
Invention of Television. (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 427 p.).
Television--Receivers and reception--History.
(TV), R. W. Burns (1998).
Television: An International History of
the Formative Years. (London, UK: Institution of Electrical
Engineers, 661 p.). Television--History; Television--Receivers and
reception--History; Television broadcasting--History.
(TV), Evan I. Schwartz (2002).
The Last Lone Inventor: Tale of
Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television. (New York, NY:
HarperCollins, 322 p.). Farnsworth, Philo Taylor, 1906-1971;
Television--Biography; Inventors--United States--Biography; Electric
engineers--United States--Biography; Television--History.
(TV), Daniel Stashower (2002).
The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The
Untold Story of Television. (New York, NY: Broadway Books, 277 p.).
Farnsworth, Philo Taylor, 1906-1971; Sarnoff, David, 1891-1971;
Television--History. Farnsworth against Sarnoff (RCA) - ultimatley
loses.
Mark Bernstein (1996).
Grand Eccentrics: Turning the Century:
Dayton and the Inventing of America. (Wilmington, OH: Orange
Frazer Press, 271 p.). Cox, James M. (James Middleton), 1870-1957;
Kettering, Charles Franklin, 1876-1958; Patterson, John Henry,
1844-1922; Morgan, Arthur Ernest, 1878-1975; Wright, Wilbur,
1867-1912.; Wright, Orville, 1871-1948; Antioch College; Dayton
(Ohio)--Biography; Dayton (Ohio)--History.
David E. Brown; foreword by Lester C. Thurow; introductions by
James Burke (2002).
Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to
the Mouse. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 209 p.). Inventions--United
States--History--20th century; Inventors--United States--Biography.
James Burke; with a new introduction by the author (1995).
Connections. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 304 p.).
Inventions--History; Technology--History.
--- (1996).
The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made the Carburetor
Possible, and Other Journeys Through Knowledge. (Boston, MA:
Little, Brown and Co., 310 p.). Inventions--History.
Roger Burlingame (1938).
March of the Iron Men; A Social History
of Union Through Invention. (New York, NY: Scribner, 500 p.).
Inventions--United States; Inventors, American; United
States--Civilization; United States--Economic conditions.
--- (1953).
Machines That Built America. (New York, NY:
Harcourt, Brace, 214 p.). Inventions--History; Inventors--United States;
United States--Civilization.
Harold Evans, with Gail Buckland and David Lefer (2004).
They
Made America: Two Centuries of Innovators from the Steam Engine to the
Search Engine. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 496 p.).
Inventors--United States--History; Inventions--United States--History.
Men, women who made America over two centuries,
set America on course to attain standard of living unprecedented in
history of world.
Allyn Freeman, Bob Golden (1997).
Why Didn't I Think of That?: Bizarre Origins of Ingenious Inventions We
Couldn't Live Without. (New York, NY: Wiley, 240 p.). Writer and
business consultant, writer and composer. Inventions--History.
Edmund Fuller (1955).
Tinkers and Genius, the Story of the
Yankee Inventors. (New York, NY: Hastings House, 308 p.).
Inventors--United States; Inventions--History.
Thomas P. Hughes (1990).
American Genesis: A Century of
Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970. (New York, NY:
Viking, 529 p.). Technology--United States--History.
B. Zorina Khan (2005).
The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American
Economic Development, 1790-1920. (New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press, 336 p.). Professor of Economics (Bowdoin College).
Intellectual property--Economic aspects--United States--History;
Copyright--Economic aspects--United States--History; Patents--Economic
aspects--United States--History; Inventions--Economic aspects--United
States--History; Democracy--United States--History. Economic
history of American patent and copyright institutions.
John H. Lienhard (2006).
How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines.
(New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 288 p.). Retired Professor.
Inventors--United States; Inventions--History. Technology--United
States--History. Nature of invention. Author
reconciles ends of
invention with individual leaps on which they are built, illuminates
vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole
technologies; traces way in which thousands of people applied their
combined inventive genius.
David Lindsay (2000).
House of Invention The Secret Life of Everyday Products. (New
York, NY: Lyons Press, 179 p.). Inventions--History; Inventors--History.
Henry Petroski (1992).
The Evolution of Useful Things:
How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and
Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They Are.
(New York, NY: Knopf, 288 p.). Professor of Civil Engineering, History
(Duke Univ.). Inventions, Patents, Industrial Design.
Inventors sought opportunity in things the public didn't need.
Richard Ross (2005).
Patently Ridiculous: Scuba-Diving Dogs, Beerbrellas, Musical Toothpaste,
and Other Patented Strokes of Genius. (New York, NY: Plume, 160
p.). Professor of Art (University of California, Santa Barbara).
Inventions--United States; Patents--United States.
Holland Thompson (1921).
The Age of Invention; a Chronicle of
Mechanical Conquest. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 267
p.). Inventions--History; Inventors--United States.
Abbott Payson Usher (1929).
A History of Mechanical Inventions.
(New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 401 p.). Inventions--History;
Machinery--History.
Stephen van Dulken (2001).
Inventing the 19th Century: 100
Inventions That Shaped the Victorian Age from Aspirin to the Zeppelin.
(New York, NY: New York University Press, 218 p.). Expert Curator in
the Patents Information Service of The British Library.
Inventions--History--19th century. Victorian age (1837-1901) history of
one hundred most important, innovative, memorable inventions of
19th century.
--- (2004).
American Inventions: A History of Curious,
Extraordinary, and Just Plain Useful Patents. (New York, NY: New
York University Press, 241 p.). Expert Curator in the Patents
Information Service of The British Library. Inventions--United
States--History; Patents--United States--History.
1911- 1999: number of registered U.S. patents rose from 1 million to 6 million; how
patent records reflect trends in history of United States
Stephen Van Dulken; with an introduction by Andrew Phillips (2000).
Inventing
the Twentieth Century: 100 Inventions That Shaped the World: From the
Airplane to the Zipper. (Washington Square, NY: New York
University Press, 246 p.). Expert Curator in the Patents Information
Service of The British Library. Inventions--History--20th century.
History of 100 of the most significant inventions
of the century, decade by decade.
Ethlie Ann Vare, Greg Ptacek (2002).
Patently Female: From AZT to TV Dinners: Stories of Women Inventors and
Their Breakthrough Ideas. (New York, NY: Wiley, 220 p.). Women
inventors; Women inventors--United States--Biography.
Jeffrey S. Young (1998).
Forbes Greatest Technology Stories:
Inspiring Tales of the Entrepreneurs and Inventors Who Revolutionized
Modern Business. (New York, NY: Wiley, 368 p.). Inventions--United
States--History; Inventors--United States--History; High
technology--United States--History.
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