Discusses electric light, including such topics as early experiments, how the light bulb changed everyday life, how an electric light bulb works, and the future of the electric light bulb.

Product Description: Technology is business, and dealing with the media, the public, financiers, and government agencies can be as important to an invention's success as effective product development. To understand how rhetoric works in technology, one cannot do better than to start with the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A history of the invention, development, and contemporary technical advancement of electric lighting examines the contributions and work of Thomas Edison as well as the founding and growth of the General Electric Company