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Working at Inventing: Thomas A. Edison and the Menlo Park Experience

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Working at Inventing offers an interesting study of research and development at Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park (New Jersey) laboratory all through the six years between 1876 and 1882 that transformed American life. Edison and his associates developed ideas that led to more than four hundred patents and made major contributions to telegraphy, telephony, and the duplication of texts. In addition they made breakthrough innovations in two age-old human quests: conquering the darkness of night and preserving and replaying sound. Within the process, Edison demonstrated tips on how to combine technological innovation and business strategy. Afterward, research and development was very important corporate activities.

Six experts on Edison’s work deal in turn with the working conditions and the experiences at Menlo Park; the work culture of machinists and their have an effect on on innovation; the role that telegraphy played in forming the lab’s inventive activities; Edison’s use of mental models in developing the telephone; the importance of visual communication in technology; and the significance of Menlo Park as a model of scientific and technological development. William Pretzer’s introduction to the volume provides the context of Edison’s career, at the same time as an epilogue explains the public interpretation of the Menlo Park laboratory as reconstructed by Henry Ford in his out of doors museum, Greenfield Village.


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