CD Audiobook

Edison [sound recording] / Edmund Morris.

Morris, Edmund, (author.). Morey, Arthur, (narrator.).

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780593153673
ISBN: 0593153677
Physical Description: 20 audio discs (25 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: New York, New York : Random House Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, [2019]
Copyright: ℗2019

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from container. Compact discs.
Formatted Contents Note:	Botany (1920-1929) -- Defense (1910-1919) -- Power (1900-1909) -- Magnetism (1890-1899) -- Light (1880-1889) -- Sound (1870-1879) -- Telegaphy (1860-1869) -- Natural philosophy (1847-1859).
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Arthur Morey.