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“Reinventing Edison: Build your own Light Bulb” Reading List and Bibliography
"Reinventing Edison: Build your own Light Bulb" is a science kit that integrates invention and history along
side science, technology, and math. Part of the creative process of designing our science kits is to do as
much research as possible into the history of the invention and the inventor as well as the science behind
the invention. To that end we have collected and read the following books relating to Edison, the Electric
Light, and Invention in general.
Many of these books are out of print, or are rare but you still may find them at your local library, used book
store, via eBay, or via used books sold on Amazon.com and other websites.
There have been hundreds of books written about Edison and the invention of the Light Bulb, so if you have
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And now without further ado, here is the list of books we used in researching our science kit,
we hope you enjoy:
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A Century of Light
By: James A. Cox
Type: Hardcover (224 pages)
Publisher: Benjamin Co: (April , 1979)
ASIN: 0875020623
Description: An in-depth history of the development of the electric light by Thomas Edison and the
subsequent development and history of General Electric.
Topics: Light Bulb, Edison, and Invention
Status: Out of Print
Edison: A Biography by Matthew Josephson
By: Matthew Josephson
Type: Hardback (511 pages)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (1959)
ASIN: 0703304682
Description: A biography of Thomas A. Edison
Topics: Edison, Light Bulb, Phonograph, Invention
Status: Out of Print (Hardback): Reprint (Paperback)
Edison’s Electric Light: Biography of an Invention
By: Robert Friedel & Paul Israel with Bernard S. Finn
Type: Hardcover (263 Pages), Paperback (Reprint)
Publisher: Rutgers University Print (February 1, 1986)
ISBN: 0813511186
Description: An in-depth history of Thomas Edison’s Electric Light Bulb
Topics: Light Bulb, Edison, and Invention
Status: Limited Availability
The Electronic Epoch
By: Elizabeth Antebi
Type: Hardback ( 256 pages)
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold (January 1, 1983)
ISBN: 0442282540
Description: A detailed and international view of how electricity and electronics has
shaped the modern world.
Topics: Electronics, Invention, Science, Technology
Status: Out of print
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