From Start-Up to Disintegration
The MIT Press eBooks · 2017
As every American girl and boy learns in school, Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb. As every successful American inventor, entrepreneur, financier, and businessperson in the twenty-first century should know, Thomas Edison's invention made the journey from his laboratory to the commercial marketplace in eight short years from 1874 to 1882. Edison's invention became a technology of fundamental importance throughout the twentieth century.