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Brief Bibliography of Works on Thomas A. Edison
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- Paul Israel
- Edison : A Life of Invention (New York: John Wiley, 1998) is the standard biography.
- Martin V. Melosi
- Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America (Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education, 1990) is a good short biography.
- Theresa M. Collins and Lisa Gitelman
- Thomas Edison and Modern America: A Brief History with Documents (New York: Beford/St. Martin's, 2002) is an excellent collection of documents with a brief biography of the inventor.
- Thomas E. Jeffrey
- From Phonographs to U-Boats: Edison and His "Insomnia Squad" in Peace and War, 1911-1919 (Bethesda, Md.: LexisNexis, 2008) examines a period in Edison's career largely neglected by biographers and historians.
- William S. Pretzer, ed.
- Working at Inventing: Thomas Edison and the Menlo Park Experience (Dearborn, Mich.: Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, 1989) provides an introduction to the Menlo Park laboratory.
- Andre J. Millard
- Edison and the Business of Innovation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1990) discusses Edison's work at the West Orange laboratory.
- Michele Wehrwein Albion
- The Florida Life of Thomas Edison (Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2008) is the best book on Edison in Fort Myers.
- Michele Wehrwein Albion, editor
- The Quotable Edison (Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2011) provides a guide to Edison quotations.
- Robert Friedel and Paul Israel, with Bernard S. Finn
- Edison's Electric Light: The Art of Inventionn (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2010) is the best book on Edison's invention and development of the DC electric light and power system.
- Charles Musser
- Thomas A. Edison and His Kinetographic Motion Pictures (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press for the Friends of Edison National Historic Site, 1995) provides a short overview of Edison's work on motion pictures. His Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991) provides a concise history of the Edison motion picture business.
