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Edison's Environment: The Great Inventor Was Also A Great Polluter

Edison's Environment: The Great Inventor Was Also A Great Polluter

Hill, George J.

Paperback

Historical Figures

ISBN10: 0788457659
ISBN13: 9780788457654
Publisher: Heritage Books
Published: Oct 17 2017
Pages: 534
Weight: 1.56
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Thomas Edison is acclaimed as the 'Wizard of Menlo Park, ' and as Time magazine's 'Man of the Century.' Edison saw himself as a benefactor of humanity. But in this startling new look at Edison, Dr. George J. Hill suggests that the price of invention was serious industrial pollution and other environmental costs. Meadows, ponds, and forest disappeared to make way for Edison's laboratories, factories, and mining operation; water and soil pollution were rife, and the health consequences for workers and residents were severe. Dr. Hill is the first author to offer a comprehensive look at Edison's impact on the environment. Edison's Environment examines the inventor's interactions - as expressed in his life, thought and career - with the natural world, and traces the development of environmental consciousness in the views of Edison and his contemporaries. He explores the fundamental debate about how we should judge the actions and ethics of past generations. In so doing, George Hill has written one of the most novel and original works on Edison to appear in a generation. - Mark Edward Lender, Ph.D.

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