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Neil Baldwin. Edison: Inventing the Century. New York: Hyperion, 1995.
He invented the phonograph, light bulb, motion picture camera, and registered 1,093 patents. He was to the telegraph technology of his day what Bill Gates is to computers today. He married twice and neglected his six children. He was the Wizard of Menlo Park and his life story is compellingly told by Neil Baldwin in this illustrated, well-researched (almost one hundred pages of notes and bibliography) biography. Thomas Edison is credited with saying that genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. He never lacked for either. When the idea struck he...