The Papers of Thomas A. Edison The Wizard of Menlo Park, 1878

• Main Author: Edison, Thomas A. (auth)
• Other Authors: Israel, Paul B. (Editor), Nier, Keith (Editor), Carlat, Louis (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 1998
• Subjects: History of science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This newest volume in the acclaimed Papers of Thomas A. Edison covers one year in the life of America's greatest inventor-1878. That year Edison, whom a New York newspaper in the spring first called "the Wizard of Menlo Park," developed the phonograph, one of his most famous invention...