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Edmund Morris

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  • Marc AndreessenRecommendation
    A captured April 2020 thread includes Morris’s Edison among Andreessen’s suggested books to accompany his essay It’s Time to Build.
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Summary

Edmund Morris’s biography examines Thomas Edison’s inventions, businesses, and private life. Alongside electric lighting, it follows his long interest in recording sound and synchronizing it with moving pictures. Morris draws on laboratory records and family papers to portray both Edison’s many pursuits and his difficult relationships at home.

  • SourceEdison — Penguin Random House · About Edison; recording, companies, and family portrait

Why read it Our view

Read it to explore the demands of working across several technologies while building businesses around them. The family portrait also makes room to consider how intense work affects the people closest to a founder.

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  • Thomas EdisonBiography subject
    Thomas Edison is the subject of Edmund Morris’s biography.
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