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    The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America (Penguin History American Life) Ernest Freeberg “Light had come to the American city. And it was just awful.”
A brief history of giving the people what they wanted, or why the...

    The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America (Penguin History American Life)

    Ernest Freeberg

    “Light had come to the American city. And it was just awful.”

    A brief history of giving the people what they wanted, or why the lightbulb was a mere cog in the machinery of total illumination.

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