Edison and the Business of Innovation

Informationen zum Autor André Millard is a professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of several books, including The Electric Guitar: A History of an American Icon , also published by Johns Hopkins. Klappentext 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.

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• Authors: Andr? J. Millard, Andra(c) J. Millard, Andre Millard, André Millard, Andre (University of Alabama At Birmingha Millard
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.09.1993
• EAN: 9780801847301
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-4730-1
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the H; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, SCIENCE / History, Technology & Industrial Arts