Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison.

EDISON, Thomas Alva; W.K.L. Dickson and Antonia Dickson.

Item Number: 70010

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1894.

First edition of this early work on Thomas Edison. Quarto, original cloth, gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel, illustrated throughout. Signed on the front free endpaper, “From Orange New Jersey March 15 1895 Thomas A Edison.” In near fine condition, newspaper clipping pasted to the pastedown. Rare and desirable signed by Edison.

Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor who developed many devices including the motion picture camera, the phonograph and the electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.