Edison’s Environment: Invention and Pollution in the Career of Thomas Edison Reviews

Edison’s Environment: Invention and Pollution in the Career of Thomas Edison

At the end of his life in 1931, Thomas Edison was renowned as the American Wizard. But in this startling new look at Edison, George J. Hill, M.D., suggests that the price of invention included serious industrial pollution. Edison saw himself as a benefactor of humanity, an image he honed carefully over the years, and there is no question that his discoveries in so many fields were contributions of the first rank. But they sometimes came at an environmental cost. A New Jersey judge fined an Ediso$ 34.95