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Historical person
Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman whose laboratories developed and commercialised technologies central to the modern electrical and media industries. His name became associated with the phonograph, practical incandescent-lighting systems, motion-picture technology and improvements in telegraphy and sound recording.
Edison built organised research laboratories at Menlo Park and West Orange and accumulated more than a thousand U.S. patents. His companies helped create the infrastructure of electric power, while many inventions credited to him were the products of large teams working within an industrial research system.
In David Boyle’s Thomas Edison, this concise biography examines Thomas Edison’s rise from an experimental telegraph operator to one of the most prolific inventors and entrepreneurs of industrial America. In John Jakes’ Homeland, Historical figures including Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison and Buffalo Bill connect the family’s private ambitions to a nation being remade by technology, labour conflict and mass entertainment.
Series
The Crown Family Saga follows a German-American family in Chicago as immigration, industrial wealth and new forms of entertainment transform the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Beginning with young Pauli Kroner’s arrival from Berlin, the novels explore the household of brewery magnate Joe Crown…
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Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
