A/P Ian Gordon

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Reading:
Hughes, Thomas P. American Genesis: A Century Of Invention And Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970. New York: Viking, 1989. Chapter Two. NUS Library Holdings

Additional:
Baldwin, Neil. Edison, Inventing the Century. New York: Hyperion, 1995. NUS Library Holdings
Bazerman, Charles. The Languages of Edison's Light. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. NUS Library Holdings
Boal, Mark. "Overdoing IT," Brill's Content, April 2001. Web version
Brayer, Elizabeth. George Eastman: A Biography. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. NUS Lib Holdings
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: Norton, 1998, Chapter 13. NUS Library Holdings
Israel, Paul. Edison: A Life of Invention. New York: John Wiley, 1998. NUS Library Holdings
Grosvenor, Edwin S., Morgan Wesson, Robert V. Bruce. Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Man Who Invented the Telephone. New York: Harry N Abrams, 1997. NUS Library Holdings
Meikle, Jeffrey L. Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925-1939. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979. NUS Library Holdings
Miller, Jim. Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999, pp39-43. NUS Library Holdings
Morton, David.  Off the Record: the Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2000.  NUS Library Holdings

See also:
MIT's Invention Dimension
Wilkman, Nancy. The Edison Effect. New York: A & E Home Video, 1996. Videorecording. NUS Library Holdings
Edison's papers online
Edison patent application and drawing
View/Listen:
Early movies and recordings by Thomas Edison's company.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html
Bell's papers online
Bell's patent application and drawing.
Kodak History:
http://www.kodak.com/aboutKodak/kodakHistory/kodakHistory.shtml

Links will be added to the following after lectures:
Lecture Outline
Power Point Outline
Study Guide

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