The Quotable Edison
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The Quotable Edison

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eBook - ePub

The Quotable Edison

About this book

Thomas Edison was the "Wizard of Menlo Park." A prolific inventor and holder of numerous patents, he was also called a "magician," "the Napoleon of Science," and the "Inventor of the Age." But he was also a practical joker, a self-made man with a certain disdain for polite society, an ambitious explorer, and a public intellectual.

The Quotable Edison offers a wealth of his insightful, enlightening, and sometimes humorous comments and witticisms on a wide range of subjects, from business to politics, from religion to nutrition, from advice to boys to opinions on women's clothing.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface and Acknowledgments
  8. Chronology
  9. 1. On Inventing
  10. 2. On His Own Inventions
  11. 3. On Inventions of Others and the Machine Age
  12. 4. On the Sciences
  13. 5. On Work and Business
  14. 6. On Religion
  15. 7. On Politics and Government
  16. 8. On the Press
  17. 9. On the Law
  18. 10. On the United States
  19. 11. On Other Nations and Their Populations
  20. 12. On Gender, Humanity, and Youth
  21. 13. On the Brain
  22. 14. On the Body
  23. 15. On the Arts
  24. 16. On Family
  25. 17. On People
  26. 18. On Himself
  27. 19. On the Future
  28. 20. Miscellaneous
  29. 21. Others on Edison
  30. Notes
  31. Bibliography
  32. Index