Edison and the Business of Innovation
Published on 26. April 1990
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-0-8018-3306-9 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
An informative business history, illuminating Edison the businessman, industrialist, and manager, showing why he succeeded in some areas and failed in others and how he 'straddled the craft culture of the preindustrial age and the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century'-Journal of American History Millard modestly calls this book 'an advance party crossing the vast stretches of the Edison archives.' That it may be, yet his analysis of the rise and decline of the West Orange laboratory is not likely to be superseded.
-American Historical Review For anyone wishing to expand, in an accessible yet scholarly way, his or her understanding of this uniquely American icon, this is an excellent point of departure.
-Matthew Hill, Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
737 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-3306-9 (9780801833069)
DOI
10.56021/9780801833069
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Andre Millard
Edison and the Business of Innovation
Book
09/1993
Johns Hopkins University Press
€46.10
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Person
Andre Millard is a professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of Beatlemania: Technology, Business, and Teen Culture in Cold War America and Equipping James Bond: Guns, Gadgets, and Technological Enthusiasm.
Content
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
Books in Series
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
Books in Series