Edison

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Edison is written by Edmund Morris and published by National Geographic Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0593153677 (ISBN 10) and 9780593153673 (ISBN 13).

Edmund Morris writes about a man who was arguably the most famous in the world when he died in 1931, so revered for his perfection of the incandescent light bulb that President Hoover proposed darkening the entire United States for one minute on the night of his funeral. For the rest of the twentieth century, Edison's image, polished by his additional fame as the inventor of the phonograph, the Kinetoscope moving-picture camera, and the rechargeable alkaline battery, solidified into marble, cold to the touch and impossible to penetrate.