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Thomas Edison's greatest invention? His own fame.At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as “the Napoleon of invention” and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through the development of incandescent light and the first motion picture cameras, Edison's name became emblematic of all the wonder and promise of the emerging age of technological marvels.But as Randall Stross makes clear in this critical biography of the man who is arguably the most globally famous of all Americans, Thomas Edison's greatest invention may have been his own celebrity. Edison was certainly a technical genius, but Stross excavates the man from layers of myth-making and separates his true achievements from his almost equally colossal failures. How much credit should Edison receive for the various inventions that have popularly been attributed to him—and how many of them resulted from both the inspiration and the perspiration of his rivals and even his own assistants?This bold reassessment of Edison's life and career answers this and many other important questions while telling the story of

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Author

Randall Stross; Randall E Stross

Publisher

New York: Crown Publishers

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400047628

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Historical Fiction, Engineering

Rating

3.52 / 5 (536 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14