Millard, A. J. <br/><br/>
Edison and the business of innovation / 
André Millard. 
 - Baltimore, Md. :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  c1990. 
 - xiv, 387 p. :  ill., ports., facsim. ;  23 cm. +  pbk.  
 - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology, new series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-380) and index. 
<br/><br/>The largest laboratory extant -- The machine shop culture -- The business of innovation -- The phonography: a case study in research and development -- Edison's laboratory and the electrical industry -- Diversification in the 1890s -- Moving pictures -- An industrial empire -- Thomas A. Edison, incorporated -- The diamond disc -- The rise of the organization -- Business and technology: the dictating machine -- The impending conflict -- The end of an era -- The last years. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801847303  
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>89015419 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Edison, Thomas A. 1847-1931. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Inventors--United States--Biography.<br/>Businessmen--United States--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.476213