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Edison Review: Edison, His Life and Inventions. [Originally published in 1910]Commissioned by Edison himself, as a tool for his self-promotion, this nonetheless very informative and useful biography was written by Dyer (an Edison patent attorney) and Martin (a technical magazine publisher and editor). It was written when Edison was 63 (he lived to 84, dying in 1931). Although the book could rightfully be called a panegyric, with little criticism of Edison, that is not to say that it is without value. Although a biography, it is not an introspective work, and at its conclusion, one is unlikely ... Read more »

By Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin Price: Check price »