尘封档案里的爱迪生

The Undiscovered World of Thomas Edison

1978年,来自罗格斯大学和爱迪生国家纪念馆的8名历史学家,联袂启动了科技史上规模罕见的＂爱迪生档案发掘整理工程＂。在为期数十年发掘、整理、存档过程中,400多万份爱迪生的尘封档案不断面世,其中有些已出版成册,这使世人对这位大发明家有了更多新认识。

Edison＇s towering status reflects more than his extraordinary productivity. Yet, in the six decades since the inventor＇s death, little serious writing has been done aboutEdison＇s remarkable genius for invention. Nier is one of eight historians at Rutgers University and at the Edison National Historic Sit now trying to set the record straightz. The scale of in the history of technology and science. What started in 1978, when archivists estimated that million pages of documents. e1, th in West Orange, New Jersey, who are eir endeavor is virtually unprecedented is now known as the Edison Papers Project the inventor＇s estate included just over a million pages of documents.