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    Edison

    Edison

    by Edmund Morris

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    Meet the genius

    From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. Morris explored Edison’s five-million-page archive of papers and other artifacts. In the process he not only resurrected Edison as a human being, but as a polymath of staggering variety—Edison the botanist, the naval strategist, the chemist and telegrapher and audio producer and publisher. From age 12 Edison was an open floodgate of what he called “new things,” inventing the electric pen, the X-ray fluoroscope, earbuds, “talkie” movies, voice-activated motors, audio mail, tornado-proof houses, and countless other innovations. This is a fascinating biography of an amazing man.

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    Pages: 800
    Release Date: October 22, 2019
    ISBN: 9780812993110
    Club ID: 1422704
    Format: Regular Print
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