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ISBN10: 1594204268, ISBN13: 9781594204265, [publisher: Penguin Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 1594204268, ISBN13: 9781594204265, [publisher: Penguin Press (February 21, 2013)] Hardcover First Edition Signed Copy: First edition first printing. Near fine in ner fine dust jacket. Profusely illustrated This a nice clean copy, the spine is solid, The text is clean and pages are not torn or dirty. We provide fast and reliable shipping service. We started to sell on the internet in 1998. We ship from California. All our books are guaranteed.
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ISBN10: 1594204268, ISBN13: 9781594204265, [publisher: Penguin Press] Hardcover First Edition FIRST Edition AND FIRST Printing with publishers full number line in place. * SIGNED * by author DIRECTLY ONTO THE TITLE PAGE (Signature only). A FLAWLESS / MINT copy in same condition UNclipped dust jacket. An in-depth history, and illustrated with many b/w photographs and drawings. A large section of "Notes" at rear - great reference material. Non-Fiction. Mylar protected jacket.
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New York The Penguin Press 2013 First Printing [Stated] Hardcover Very good in Very good jacket [14], 354 pages. Frontis. Illustrations. Notes. Index. This is one of the Penguin History of American Life. Ernest Freeberg is an American historian in 19th and 20th-century American culture, currently a Distinguished Humanities Professor and Departmental Chair of History at the University of Tennessee. In 2002, he was awarded the John H. Dunning Prize. Dr. Freeberg's research interests center on the cultural and intellectual history of the United States in the 19th and early 20th century. The Age of Edison, explores the impact of electric light on the development of modern American culture. His Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs explores imprisonment of the socialist and the role played in promoting civil liberties in America. Democracy's Prisoner won the Langum Prize in American Legal History and the Oboler Award from the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Roundtable. The author begins as the inventor struggles to find a suitable filament for his bulb. Freeberg then takes us on a tour of the electric world as it emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He shows us how light affected many other aspects of American life, including shopping, transportation, leisure, education and medicine. Freeberg also examines how the spread of light across the country came to symbolize not just American inventiveness, but for many, cultural superiority. The author ...

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ISBN10: 1594204268, ISBN13: 9781594204265, [publisher: The Penguin Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition electric light and the invention of modern america. another way of looking at the last 140 years and how it happened.
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The Penguin Press, Date: 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. The Penguin Press, 2013. first printing. 354pp., index, notes, black and white photographs and illustrations. 8vo. Fine hardcover, near fine d/j. 2013. The Penguin Press ISBN 1594204268 9781594204265 [US]

ISBN10: 1594204268, ISBN13: 9781594204265, [publisher: The Penguin Press] Hardcover First Edition The Penguin Press, 2013. first printing. 354pp., index, notes, black and white photographs and illustrations. 8vo. Fine hardcover, near fine d/j.
[Columbia, MO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2013]

New York: The Penguin Press, Date: 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. Tight and clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2013. The Penguin Press ISBN 1594204268 9781594204265 [US]

ISBN10: 1594204268, ISBN13: 9781594204265, [publisher: The Penguin Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition Tight and clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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New York: Penguin Press, Date: 2013. Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted else bright, intact and whole. FOLCAS 2/21 2013. Penguin Press ISBN 1594204268 9781594204265 [US]

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This book explores the advent of the electric light; how it was both the product of a technological boom and itself sparked even more technological innovation. Date: 2013. Penguin Press; publisher ISBN 1594204268 9781594204265 [US]

ISBN10: 1594204268, ISBN13: 9781594204265, [publisher: Penguin Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition 354 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. A near-fine copy of the first printing. "The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other invention, the electric light marked the arrival of modernity. The lightbulb became a catalyst for the nation's transformation from a rural to an urban-dominated culture. City streetlights defined zones between rich and poor, and the electrical grid sharpened the line between town and country. "Bright lights" meant 'big city.' Like moths to a flame, millions of Americans migrated to urban centers in these decades, leaving behind the shadow of candle and kerosene lamp in favor of the exciting brilliance of the urban streetscape. The Age of Edison places the story of Edison's invention in the context of a technological revolution that transformed America and Europe in these decades. Edison and his fellow inventors emerged from a culture shaped by broad public education, a lively popular press that took an interest in science ...
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Penguin Press 2013-02-20 Hardcover Like New Size: 6x1x9; Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

ISBN10: 1594204268, ISBN13: 9781594204265, [publisher: Penguin Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 1594204268, ISBN13: 9781594204265, [publisher: Penguin Press] Hardcover
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New York: Penguin Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Date: 2013. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 354 pp., The Penguin History American Life series. . 2013. Penguin Press ISBN 1594204268 9781594204265 [US]

ISBN10: 1594204268, ISBN13: 9781594204265, [publisher: Penguin Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition 8vo, 354 pp., The Penguin History American Life series.
[Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2013]