Book Blurbs

“Some time after his visit to the General Electric Laboratory, Edison, old free lance that he was, shook his head and declared that the ‘corporation laboratory’ would not do. The inventor was now a ‘hired person’ for the corporation, assigning to it all his patents; such men now worked in large groups and held many [...]

“The traditional view of invention assumed that it was something like an act of God, a ‘divine accident’; like ‘the poet in a fine frenzy rolling,’ the inventor and the scientist were supposed to discover things by a stroke of genius…Edison was a genius who held that there was no such thing as genius. With [...]