Download or read book Edison and the Business of Innovation written by André Millard and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the "other" Thomas Edison—not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Tracing his career from his boyhood to his death in 1931, Edison and the Business of Innovation reveals Edison to be an entrepreneur of extraordinary vision. From extensive research in the Edison archives at West Orange, New Jersey, Andre Millard presents new information about Edison the businessman and provides new interpretations of old issues.