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Thomas Edison

BiographiesIndustrialists and empire builders

Worked on the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, electric power distribution and early motion pictures, and registered 1,093 US patents; his company merged into General Electric. Died in 1931.

Edison General Electric Company

8 biographies about them

Biographies 8Profiles 1

The scholarly life and the popular lives diverge sharply on how much Edison invented himself.

Edison: A Life of InventionEdison: A Life of Invention
T1 Edison: A Life of Invention
Paul Israel · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Edison's whole inventive career, set in its era and drawn from his archive.

A Streak of LuckA Streak of Luck
T2 A Streak of Luck
Robert Conot · 1979
Open LibraryGoodreads

Edison's life drawn from his papers, unsparing about his finances.

Edison: Inventing the CenturyEdison: Inventing the Century
T2 Edison: Inventing the Century
Neil Baldwin · 1995
Open LibraryGoodreads

Edison as both myth and man, drawn from family papers and company archives.

The Wizard of Menlo ParkThe Wizard of Menlo Park
T2 The Wizard of Menlo Park
Randall E. Stross · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Edison as the first manufactured celebrity.

“I've recently been reading Randall Stross's marvelous book about Thomas Edison, The Wizard of Menlo Park” — Marc Andreessen

Source: The Pmarca Guide to Startups, Part 7

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen, David Friedberg

The Age of EdisonThe Age of Edison
T2 The Age of Edison
Ernest Freeberg · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Edison's electric light changed American life and marked a new age.

Recommended by: Alfred Lin, Patrick Collison

EdisonEdison
T2 Edison
Edmund Morris · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Thomas Edison's life, told in reverse chronological order.

“on perhaps the greatest American builder of all, the builder who brought electricity to us all, Thomas Edison” — Marc Andreessen

Source: @pmarca, companion thread to 'It's Time to Build'

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

Empires of LightEmpires of Light
T3 Empires of Light
Jill Jonnes · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

The current war: Edison against Westinghouse and Tesla.

Recommended by: Chris Dixon

Edison and the Rise of InnovationEdison and the Rise of Innovation
T3 Edison and the Rise of Innovation
Leonard DeGraaf · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

Edison's laboratory as a business, with pictures from his archive.