A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America. The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, ...

Electric light bulbs had been around for decades by the 1870s. Most demonstration systems used arc lamps, which seemed far too bright and burned much too hot for indoor household use. In 1878, Thomas ...

Everyone knows we have to thank Thomas Edison for inventing the electric lightbulb, one of the most impactful innovations in human history ... or do we? Regarded by many as the greatest inventor of ...

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A fter more than fifty years of uninterrupted fertility in invention, during which he has not only begotten but continuously fathered the electrical era, Thomas Alva Edison believes that we have only ...

In his illuminating newest, Freeberg, a professor of humanities at the University of Tennessee, examines the social, technological, and political context surrounding the development of the electric ...