Easton Press: THOMAS EDISON: PHONOGRAPH: ELECTRICITY: INVENTOR: NEW JERSEY

Description: Easton Press leather edition of Matthew Josephson's "Edison: A Biography," one of the LIBRARY OF GREAT LIVES series, Illustrated with Period Photographs, published in 1986. Bound in brown leather, the book has decorative paper end leaves, a satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---except for a 'blank' attached bookplate on inside fly leaf. COLLECTOR'S NOTE is included. Thomas Alva Edison, who lived from 1847 – 1929, was an American industrialist, business magnate, who was unschooled and self-taught. Born in Ohio, Edison was raised in Michigan and was fascinated in the mechanical age. It was an eclectic education, but by his early twenties, he knew as much about telegraphy and almost as much about electricity as anyone alive. Edison married Mary Stilwell in 1871 when she was 16 years old and they became parents to three children. The Edisons lived in a comfortable house and there was a staff of two Negro servants and a coachman, but Mary saw little of her husband and she was often left alone with her children. Edison had no hobbies nor recreations. When she died in 1884, Edison later courted and married Mina Miller, daughter of an Akron philanthropist. The unpolished Edition could be most charming and attentive to women and now that he was a rich man, he showered his second wife with expensive gifts. They bought a $200,000 house in suburban West Orange, New Jersey and they built a winter home in Fort Meyers, Florida. Mina set about "refining" her husband. Edison was a rough-hewn, old-fashioned American individualist. The couple became parents to three children: daughter, Madeline, and sons, Charles and Theodore. Before he was thirty, he had invented and sold stock market ticker tape machines, greatly improved telegraph and telephone systems and was already established in his own research laboratory. In 1877, Edison set out to electrify the world. He foresaw large electrical distribution networks and everyday use of incandescent electric light bulbs, both of which he proposed to invent. Later in life, Edison became best friends with HENRY FORD. When Edison died in 1929, the President of the U.S. suggested that everyone dim their lights at 10:00 P.M., the night of the funeral, in silent tribute to the man whom Sarah Bernhardt had called "The Giver of Light." 511 pages, including an Index. I offer Combined shipping.

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