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From the Armory System to Microsoft Semester 1 2000-2001 Dr. Ian Gordon AS7/02-29 Ph. 874 4694 |
Lecture 3
Invention and New Products,
Edison, Bell, and George Eastman, Industrial Design
Reading:
Hughes, Thomas P. American Genesis: A Century Of Invention And Technological
Enthusiasm, 1870-1970. New York: Viking, 1989. Chapter Two. NUS
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Additional:
Baldwin, Neil. Edison, Inventing the Century. New York: Hyperion,
1995. NUS
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Brayer, Elizabeth. George Eastman: A Biography. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1996. NUS
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Israel, Paul. Edison: A Life of Invention. New York: John Wiley,
1998. NUS
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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
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Meikle, Jeffrey L. Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design
in America, 1925-1939. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979.
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See also:
MIT's Invention Dimension
Wilkman, Nancy. The Edison Effect. New York: A & E Home
Video, 1996. Videorecording. NUS
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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
For Venture Capitalist material see Forbes ASAP
Links will be added to the following after
lectures:
Lecture Outline
Study Guide
