Edison and the Business of Innovation
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Edison and the Business of Innovation
| Author | André Millard |
|---|---|
| Published | 1990 |
| Pages | 408 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Millard’s business history of the West Orange laboratory — Edison’s invention factory treated as an organisation with a payroll, a pipeline and a cost structure, rather than as a story about a man. |
Where I heard about it
- Sarah Guo’s thread — a reply to her question on X, March 2025: “is there a book / essay about environments that best support scientific discovery? Not about specifically bell labs, cavendish, xerox parc, los alamos - but why these places were so productive?” The full list of replies is on Is There a Book… (tweet).
Connections
- Thomas Edison — subject.
- Bell Labs — the successor form of the same idea, industrialised.
- American Genesis — Hughes’s frame for exactly this transition.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.