Innovation as a Social Process

Elihu Thomson was a late-19th-century American inventor who helped create the first electric lighting and power systems.

Zusammenfassung
Elihu Thomson was a late-nineteenth-century American inventor who helped create the first electric lighting and power systems. One of the most prolific inventors in American history, Thomson was granted nearly 700 patents in a career spanning the 1880s to 1930s.

Inhalt

List of figures and tables; Editors' preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations used in footnotes; Introduction; 1. The cultivation of a scientific man; 2. Learning the craft of invention; 3. The Philadelphia partnership, 1879; 4. Frustration in New Britain, 1880 5. Success in Lynn: the Thomson-Houston electric company, 1883; 6. Maintaining the organization: product development at General Electric, 189200; Epilogue and conclusion; Index.