It’s no stretch to say he invented the modern world. His incandescent lightbulb conquered darkness. His phonograph filled the air with recorded sound. He harnessed electricity in myriad ways that transformed industry and everyday life. As the nineteenth century waned and the twentieth dawned, the name Thomas Alva Edison symbolized invention, innovation, progress. Pulitzer Prize-winner Edmund Morris has produced an engrossing portrait of one of the world’s most important and influential figures.
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