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“Reinventing Edison: Build your own Light Bulb” Reading List and Bibliography
"Reinventing Edison: Build your own Light Bulb" is a science kit that integrates invention and history along
side science, technology, and math. Part of the creative process of designing our science kits is to do as
much research as possible into the history of the invention and the inventor as well as the science behind
the invention. To that end we have collected and read the following books relating to Edison, the Electric
Light, and Invention in general.
Many of these books are out of print, or are rare but you still may find them at your local library, used book
store, via eBay, or via used books sold on Amazon.com and other websites.
There have been hundreds of books written about Edison and the invention of the Light Bulb, so if you have
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And now without further ado, here is the list of books we used in researching our science kit,
we hope you enjoy:
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A Century of Light
By: James A. Cox
Type: Hardcover (224 pages)
Publisher: Benjamin Co: (April , 1979)
ASIN: 0875020623
Description: An in-depth history of the development of the electric light by Thomas Edison and the
subsequent development and history of General Electric.
Topics: Light Bulb, Edison, and Invention
Status: Out of Print
Edison: A Biography by Matthew Josephson
By: Matthew Josephson
Type: Hardback (511 pages)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (1959)
ASIN: 0703304682
Description: A biography of Thomas A. Edison
Topics: Edison, Light Bulb, Phonograph, Invention
Status: Out of Print (Hardback): Reprint (Paperback)
Edison’s Electric Light: Biography of an Invention
By: Robert Friedel & Paul Israel with Bernard S. Finn
Type: Hardcover (263 Pages), Paperback (Reprint)
Publisher: Rutgers University Print (February 1, 1986)
ISBN: 0813511186
Description: An in-depth history of Thomas Edison’s Electric Light Bulb
Topics: Light Bulb, Edison, and Invention
Status: Limited Availability
The Electronic Epoch
By: Elizabeth Antebi
Type: Hardback ( 256 pages)
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold (January 1, 1983)
ISBN: 0442282540
Description: A detailed and international view of how electricity and electronics has
shaped the modern world.
Topics: Electronics, Invention, Science, Technology
Status: Out of print

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Eureka: An illustrated history of inventions from the wheel to the computer

By: Edward De Bono (Editor)
Publisher: Thames & Hudson (1974)
ISBN: 0500011192
Description: Illustrated History of hundreds of inventions.
Topics: Invention, Light Bulb, Telegraph, Telephone, Phonograph, and More
The Great Inventions
By: Ralph Stein
Publisher: Ridge Press (1976)
ASIN: B0006COBUM
Description: A critical history of many of the great inventions with a focus on all inventors
who worked on each invention, not just those that first patented their inventions.
Topics: Invention, Inventors
Invention in America – With Images from the Library of Congress
By: Russell Bourne
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing (October 1, 1995)
ISBN: 1555912311
Description: An illustrated history of key American inventions from Colonial Times to the
20th Centry.
Topics: Light Bulb, Telegraph, Phonograph, Telephone, Edison, Morse, Bell, Invention,
and More

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Men of Achievement: Inventors – Illustrated

By: Philip Gengembre Hubert
Publisher: C. Scribner’s and Sons (1893)
ASIN: B0006ADPC4
Description: Biographies of American Inventors from Benjamin Franklin to Alexander
Graham Bell (Includes, Edison, Morse, and other inventors through 1893)
Topics: Inventors, Inventions
Status: Out of Print, RARE
Science: A History of Discovery in the Twentieth Century
By: Trevor I. Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press (October 1, 1990)
ISBN: 0195208439
Description: A review of Scientific Discovery from 1900 to 1990
Topics: Science, Invention, Technology
Scientists & Inventors: The People who made Technology from Earliest
Times to President Day
By: Anthony Feldman and Peter Ford
Publisher: Facts on File (1986)
ISBN: 0871964104
Description: 160 Chronologically arranged biographies of histories great scientists and inventors.
Topics: Edison, Morse, Bell, Hertz, Marconi, Inventors
Technology in America (Second Edition)
By: Caroll W. Pursell, Jr (editor)
Type: Paperback (319 pages)
Publisher: The MIT Press (April 12, 1990)
ISBN: 0262660679
Description: Short biographies of many ideas, inventions, and inventors including
commentary on effects on society.
Topics: Invention, Technology, Edison, Bell, Light Bulb, Telephone
Status: Out of print

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Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind;: The Romantic Life Story of the

World’s Greatest Inventor – Illustrated
By: Francis Trevelyan Miller
Type: Hardcover (320 Pages)
Publisher: The John C. Winston Company (1931)
ASIN: B0006ALLCU
Description: An Illustrated Biography of Thomas Edison with an interesting perspective as it
was published shortly after Mr. Edison’s death in 1931.
Topics: Edison, Light Bulb, Phonograph, Invention
Status: Out of Print (Rare)
Thomas Alva Edison: The Man Who Illuminated the World
– A Pictorial Biography
By: Lawrence A. Frost
Type: Paperback (176 Pages), Harcover (176 Pages)
Publisher: Amereon Limited (September 1, 1996)
ISBN: 084881792
Description: An illustrated history of Thomas Alva Edison the man, and his work at invention.
Topics: Light Bulb, Phonograph, Edison, Inventions
Thomas A. Edison: Winter Home & Museum (Pamphlet)
By:Unknown (T.A.Edison Winter Home and Museum Fort Myers FL)
Type: Pamphlet (34 pages)
Publisher: International Graphics (Hollywood Florida, 1970’s)
ISBN: n/a
Description: Pamphlet describing details of Thomas Alva Edison’s Winter Home and Museum
in Fort Myers Florida
Topics: Edison
Status: Out of Print / Replaced by newer pamphlet
Victorian Inventions
By: Leonard De Vries
Publisher: American Heritage Press (1971)
ISBN: 0719550068
Description: A look at 350 Victorian era inventions, some successful, some not. Contains great
Victorian era illustrations.


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phone: 336.506.6696 (9-5 est) Building Better Education twitter: twitter.com/reinventor32

phone: 336.506.6696 (9-5 est) Building Better Education twitter: twitter.com/reinventor32

Eureka: An illustrated history of inventions from the wheel to the computer

phone: 336.506.6696 (9-5 est) Building Better Education twitter: twitter.com/reinventor32

Men of Achievement: Inventors – Illustrated

phone: 336.506.6696 (9-5 est) Building Better Education twitter: twitter.com/reinventor32

Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind;: The Romantic Life Story of the

phone: 336.506.6696 (9-5 est) Building Better Education twitter: twitter.com/reinventor32

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