Edison
by Edmund Morris
Morris's last book, told in reverse chronology: the inventor's deafness, the labs, the failures, the relentless experimentation. Unconventional structure; vivid on how invention actually happened.
Read it if…
you want Edison's working methods rather than the legend.
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Skip it if…
the backward structure will frustrate you.
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Three things you will actually use
- Invent by volume of experiments.
- Build the lab, not just the idea.
- Commercialize or it does not count.
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Read the Menlo Park section.
Our verdict
Invention, as process.
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