The Wizard of Menlo Park

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Though Stross is a technology writer, this book focuses not so much on Edison's career as an inventor but on his celebrity and the effort "The Wizard of Menlo Park" put into managing his image; if we believe Stross, Edison spent more time maintaining his persona than he spent inventing, a problem that led to a wealth of failed or incomplete creations/5.

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The Wizard of Menlo Park book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers.4/5. That year Edison, whom a New York newspaper in the spring first called "the Wizard of Menlo Park," developed the phonograph, one of his most famous inventions; made a breakthrough in the development of telephone transmitters, which made the This newest volume in the acclaimed Papers of Thomas A.

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The Wizard of Menlo Park captures the conflict between an inventor’s work and an inventor’s fame. One requires solitude, patience and meandering. The Author: Adam Blades. Wizard of Menlo Park, New Jersey book.

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His re-creation of the life and achievements of Thomas Edison will become the standard reference to which all historians 4/5(53). The Wizard of Menlo Park. Thomas Edison fascinates me. This book did not. It's essentially a regurgitation of letters and newspaper articles about 3/5(6). The Wizard of Menlo Park reveals not only how Edison worked, but how he managed his own fame, becoming the first great celebrity of the modern age.

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