Edison and the business of innovation
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Edison and the business of innovation
(John Hopkins studies in the history of technology)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993
Softshell Books ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the story of the "other" Thomas Edison-not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Tracing his career from his boyhood to his death in 1931, Edison and the Business of Innovation reveals Edison to be an entrepreneur of extraordinary vision. From extensive research in the Edison archives at West Orange, New Jersey, Andre Millard presents new information about Edison the businessman and provides new interpretations of old issues.
Table of Contents
LIst of Tables and Figures
Preface
1. The Largest Laboratory Extant
2. The Machine Shop Culture
3. The Business of Innovation
4. The Phonograph: A Case Study in Research and Development
5. Edison's Laboratory and the Electrical industry
6. Diversification in the 1890s
7. Moving Pictures
8. An Industrial Empire
9. Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated
10. The Diamond Disc
11. The Rise of the Organization
12. Business and technology: The Dictating Machine
13. The Impending Conflict
14. The End of an Era
15. The Last Years
Epilogue
Notes
Index
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