LEADER 04362oam 22006134a 450 001 9910524859903321 005 20230621140451.0 010 $a1-4214-4225-6 010 $a1-4214-1289-6 035 $a(CKB)3880000000024971 035 $a(EBL)4398459 035 $a(OCoLC)941696046 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001355367 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11743828 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001355367 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11347000 035 $a(PQKB)11537213 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4398459 035 $a(OCoLC)868834710 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28116 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89021 035 $a(oapen)doab89021 035 $a(EXLCZ)993880000000024971 100 $a20140117e20141989 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe papers of Thomas A. Edison$hVolume 4$hThe Wizard of Menlo Park, 1878 /$fedited by Paul B. Israel, Keith A. Neir, and Louis Carlat; editor Reese Jenkins 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d1998 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014. 215 $a1 online resource (968 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8018-5819-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 887-896) and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Calendar of Documents; List of Editorial Headnotes; Preface; Chronology of Thomas A. Edison, 1878; Editorial Policy; Editorial Symbols; List of Abbreviations; 1 January-February 1878: (Docs. 1164-1227); 2 March-April 1878: (Docs. 1228-1310); 3 May-June 1878: (Docs. 1311-1369); 4 July-August 1878: (Docs. 1370-1417); 5 September 1878: (Docs. 1418-1463); 6 October 1878: (Docs.1464-1538 ); 7 November 1878: (Docs. 1539-1594); 8 December 1878: (Docs. 1595-1651); Appendix 1. Edison's Autobiographical Notes; Appendix 2. Charles Batchelor's Recollections of Edison 327 $aAppendix 3. ""Thomas A. Edison"" (Chicago Tribune), by George BlissAppendix 4. Edison's U.S. Patents, 1878; Bibliography; Credits; Index. 330 $aThis newest volume in the acclaimed Papers of Thomas A. Edison covers one year in the life of America's greatest inventor?1878. That year Edison, whom a New York newspaper in the spring first called "the Wizard of Menlo Park," developed the phonograph, one of his most famous inventions; made a breakthrough in the development of telephone transmitters, which made the instrument commercially viable; and announced the advent of domestic electric lighting, with only a few weeks' worth of tinkering necessary to complete its design (the announcement sent gas-company stocks plummeting; the research and development went on for four years).These inventions brought Edison financial support for his work and attention from the public. In January investors in the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company agreed to fund development work on the phonograph. The invention made Edison internationally famous and in May he traveled to Washington, D.C., to show the phonograph at the National Academy of Sciences, to Congress, and to President Rutherford B. Hayes at the White House. That same month Western Union agreed to pay Edison an annual salary of $6,000 for his telephone inventions, although other support from the company declined following the death of its president, William Orton. The stress of unceasing public attention, including a trans-Atlantic dispute over the question of who invented the microphone, led an exhausted Edison to travel west during the summer to witness a solar eclipse but also to seek rest. His six-week trip took him to San Francisco and the Yosemite region of California. Edison began working on electric lighting after his return and in October the Edison Electric Light Company was formed to support his research. 606 $aInventors$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aInventors 676 $a600 700 $aEdison$b Thomas A$g(Thomas Alva),$f1847-1931,$01097548 702 $aCarlat$b Louis 702 $aIsrael$b Paul 702 $aNier$b Keith A. 702 $aJenkins$b Reese 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524859903321 996 $aThe Papers of Thomas A. Edison$92617997 997 $aUNINA