Full name: The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America

Author: Ernest Freeberg Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Science, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781594204265 1594204268

The late 19th century saw a surge of technological advancement, but probably nothing as important as Edison's invention of the light bulb. Here, University of Tennessee history professor Freeberg, author of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist Democracy's Prisoner, shows how radically the light bulb transformed America, freeing it from the stranglehold of the gas companies, turning it from a rural to an urban society and, as the electrical grid took over, drawing a sharp line between city and country, rich and poor. For history buffs and techies alike. - Library Journal Reviews: http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/201... Similar books: The Power Makers by Maury Klein A Thread Across the Ocean by John Steele Gordon Empires of Light by Jill Jonnes The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Rocket Men by Robert Kurson Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Kranz Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell E=mc2 by David Bodanis The Knife Man by Wendy Moore How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges Vaccinated by Paul A. Offit Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone