Paul Israel is the managing editor of a multivolume documentary edition of the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University and the coauthor of Edison’s Electric Light. He holds a PhD in the history of technology. He lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.
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The definitive biography of the century's godfather of invention—from the preeminent Edison scholar The conventional story of Thomas Edison reads more like myth than history: with only three months of formal education, a hardworking young man overcom... SEE MORE