FOR YOUNG READERS:

Brandt, Keith; Electricity (Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1985)

Chapman, Paul;The Young Scientist Book of Electricity (London: Osborne Publishing, 1976)

Cousins, Margaret; The Story of Thomas Alva Edison (New York: Random House, 1965)

Hutchings, David W.; Edison at Work: The Thomas A. Edison Laboratory at West Orange, New Jersey (New York: Hastings House, 1969)

Sabin, Louis; Thomas Alva Edison: Young Inventor (Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1983)

Schultz, Robert F.; Electrical and Chemical Experiments from Edison (Southfield, MI: Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, 1970)

______; Simple Experiments on Magnetism and Electricity from Edison (Southfield, MI: Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, 1979)

______; Useful Science Experiments from Edison (Southfield, MI: Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, 1970)

Van der Water, Marjorie; Edison Experiments You Can Do (Southfield, MI: Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, 1960)

FOR ADULTS:

Baldwin, Neil; Edison: Inventing the Century (New York: Hyperion, 1994)

Conot, Robert E.; Thomas A. Edison: A Streak of Luck (New York: DaCapo, 1986 reprint)

Friedel, Robert and Paul Israel; Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986)

Hatcher, Danny, editor; introduction by Raymond Wile; Proceedings of the 1890 Convention of Local Phonograph Companies, Recording Technologies Series No. 1 (Nashville, TN: Country Music Foundation Press, 1974)

Hughes, Thomas P.; American Genesis: A History of the American Genius for Invention (New York City: Penguin Books, 1989)

Israel, Paul; Edison: A Life of Invention (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998)

Josephson, Matthew; Edison: A Biography (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1992 reprint)

Melosi, Martin V.; Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America (Glenview, Il: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education, 1990)

Millard, Andre; Edison and the Business of Innovation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990)

Musser, Charles; Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company (Berkeley/Los Angeles/Oxford: University of California Press, 1991)

______; The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (History of the American Cinema, Vol. I) (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990)

Musser, Charles (editor); Edison Motion Pictures: An Annotated Bibliography (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998)

Phillips, Ray; Edison's Kinetoscope and Its Films (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997)

Pretzer, William S. (editor); Working at Inventing: Thomas Edison and the Menlo Park Experience (Dearborn, Michigan: Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, 1990)

Vanderbilt, Byron Michael; Thomas Edison, Chemist (Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society, 1971)

DISCOGRAPHIES

Dethlefson, Ronald; Edison Blue Amberol Recordings, 1912 - 1914, second edition (Woodland Hills, CA: Stationery X-Press, 1997)

Dethlefson, Ronald; Edison Blue Amberol Recordings, Volume II, 1915 - 1929
Brooklyn, NY: APM Press, 1981)**

Koenigsberg, Allen; Edison Cylinder Records, 1889 - 1912, with an Illustrated History of the Phonograph, second edition (Brooklyn, NY: APM Press, 1987)

Wile, Raymond; Edison Disc Recordings, Books I and II (Philadelphia, PA: Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1978)**

Wile, Raymond and Ronald Dethlefson; Edison Disc Artists and Records, 1910 - 1929, second edition (Brooklyn, NY: APM Press, 1990)**

** Denotes out-of-print as of 1997. These items are available in many music research libraries.

VICTORIANA

Green, Harvey; Light of the Home (New York: Pantheon Books, 1983)

Macdonald, Anne L.; Feminine Ingenuity: How Women Inventors Changed America (New York: Ballantine Books, 1992)

Strasser, Susan; Never Done: A History of American Housework (New York: Pantheon Books, 1982)