Lives of invention. Patenting and productivity among great inventors in the United States (1790- 1930)
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1 septembre 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.pumi.40983
- isbn: 9782912025319
- eisbn: 9782810710164
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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B.Zorina Khan et al., « Lives of invention. Patenting and productivity among great inventors in the United States (1790- 1930) », Presses universitaires du Midi, ID : 10.4000/books.pumi.40983
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Thomas Edison is one of the most famous and productive inventors in American history. His inventive career spanned the period from the end of the Civil War through 1931: an era during which technological advances transformed everyday life. He is noted as the most prolific U.S. patentee, with a total of 1 093 U.S. patents to his credit, including improvements in telegraphy, incandescent light bulbs, the stock ticker, storage batteries, movies, the phonograph, automobiles and flying machines. E...