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<p>With his move from Menlo Park, New Jersey, to New York City at the end of March 1881, Edison shifted his focus from research and development to the commercialization of his electric lighting system. This volume of <i>The Papers of Thomas A. Edison</i> chronicles Edison's central role in the enormous effort to manufacture, market, and install electric lighting systems in the United States and abroad.</p><p>Standard studies of this period emphasize the inauguration of the commercial electric utility industry at the Pearl Street central station. Edison and his associates, however, audaciously operated on a global scale, not just focusing on the major cities of North America and Europe but reaching simultaneously from Appleton, Wisconsin, to Australia, through the Indian subcontinent and East Asia, to Central and South America.</p><p>Praise for <i>The Papers of Thomas A. Edison</i>:</p><p>A mine of material... Scrupulously edited... No one could ask for more... A choplicking feast for future Edison biographers-well into the next century, and perhaps beyond.- <i>Washington Post</i></p><p>What is most extraordinary about the collection isn't necessarily what it reveals about Edison's

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Author

Paul B. Israel, Louis Carlat, David Hochfelder, Theresa M. Collins, and Brian C. Shipley

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421412863

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Technology, Science, Engineering

Updated

2026-03-24