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 Beatlemania: Technology, Business, and Teen Culture in Cold War America and Equipping James Bond: Guns, Gadgets, and Technological Enthusiasm . 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Andr? J. Millard, Andra(c) J. Millard, Andre Millard, André Millard, Andre (University of Alabama At Birmingha Millard
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.09.1993
• EAN: 9780801847301
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-4730-1
• Pagine: 408
• Serie: Johns Hopkins Studies in the H; Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; USA, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, Biography: business & industry, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, SCIENCE / History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications, Technology & Industrial Arts, Technology: general issues, United States of America, USA, Biography: business and industry, Electronics & Communications Engineering, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups, Electronics and communications engineering