EDISON AND THE BUSINESS OF INNOVATION

Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-8018-4730-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 660 g

Reihe: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Millard, Andre

Millard, André

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Erfindungen und Erfinder 
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Millard, André
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.

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.