From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and the Changing Context of American Invention, 1830-1920 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

"Israel synthesizes a decade of editorial work on the Edison papers with the Western Union papers at the Smithsonian Institution, patent records, and key court cases... The result is an elegant book on how machine shop culture fostered inventive activities."--British Journal for the History of Science.

Studies in the History of Technology, New Series.

Merritt Roe Smith, Series Editor.