A Tentative Idea for a Lamp
Tim Radford: Thomas Edison, 18 March 1999
Edison: A Life of Invention
by Paul Israel.
Wiley, 552 pp., £19.50, November 1998,0 471 52942 7 Show More
by Paul Israel.
Wiley, 552 pp., £19.50, November 1998,
“... had that kind of vision, too, and a sense of his place in history, but he wanted his success to be swift, if not instant. So he preferred to concentrate on kicking open doors that were already being unlocked by others. He liked having workmen around – and mathematicians, physicists, chemists, glassblowers, engineers and designers, too – to turn his rough ... ”