SUMMARY - The Wizard Of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented The Modern World By Randall E. Stross
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By reading this summary, you will learn how Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) invented the modern world.
You will also learn :
- that Edison is the inventor of cinema;
- that he is also the inventor of electric light;
- that his father supported an armed revolt against the Canadian provincial government;
- that his grandfather was a loyalist, refusing the emancipation of the thirteen British North American colonies from the British Crown;
- that Edison is one of the most important American icons;
- that he was the first to achieve this degree of celebrity in the United States outside the political and military spheres.
From the phonograph to the filament lamp, from the cinema to the camera, Edison is one of the main inventors of modernity. The equal of a Henry Ford, so to speak. Henry Ford, who was one of Edison's closest friends. However, one trait sets Edison apart as an inventor of modernity: his celebrity, both during his lifetime and after his death. The biography of Randall Stross devoted to the "Wizard of Menlo Park" gives full scope to this dimension of the character. He makes of it something more than a simple compilation of dates and proper names: a true chronicle of the pivotal decades of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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