Edison: A BiographyRegarded as the classic standard biography on Thomas Edison. It is the only biography written in the last 40 years to be recommended by the official voice of the caretakers of the Edison Laboratory National Monument in New Jersey which houses all of Edison's original records, sketches, notes, correspondence and memoranda. Depicts Edison as a pivotal figure in America's economic and industrial revolution success and at the same time as a human being, including his exploitative and, at times, crude qualities. |
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Page 193
... Upton as chief scientific assistant and mathema- tician at Menlo Park Laboratory . Upton , a native of Massachusetts , was a tall black - bearded young man with distinguished manners . As if to compensate himself for his sense of ...
... Upton as chief scientific assistant and mathema- tician at Menlo Park Laboratory . Upton , a native of Massachusetts , was a tall black - bearded young man with distinguished manners . As if to compensate himself for his sense of ...
Page 194
... [ Upton said later ] why I did not see the elementary facts in 1878 and 1879 more clearly than I did . I came to Mr. Edison a trained man , with a year's experience at Helmholtz's laboratory ... a working knowledge of calculus and a ...
... [ Upton said later ] why I did not see the elementary facts in 1878 and 1879 more clearly than I did . I came to Mr. Edison a trained man , with a year's experience at Helmholtz's laboratory ... a working knowledge of calculus and a ...
Page 209
... Upton who made the mathe- matical calculations and drew the final blueprints . The self - effacing Upton may therefore be given principal credit for in- terpreting Edison's ideas and translating them into mathematical form . It was ...
... Upton who made the mathe- matical calculations and drew the final blueprints . The self - effacing Upton may therefore be given principal credit for in- terpreting Edison's ideas and translating them into mathematical form . It was ...
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