Rare Books Online

[Ed Covington]

I suspect most of your viewers who collect early incandescent lamps already know this, but in case some don't know, here goes. Collecting early books on the subject can be expensive as well as difficult. However, we now live in a time when one's purse need not be affected. In my opinion one of the desirable early lamp history books is that by E. Alglave and J. Boulard, titled The Electric Light: Its History, Production and Application. Today you can "have" this book by typing "Alglave and Boulard" in Google, the search engine. The first listing is that book, all 458 pages. Enjoy!

[Tim]

Hi Ed,

Both Google Books and Google Patents are tremendous resources for collectors and historians.  I?ve spent great amounts of time on Google Books researching old history and there is a feature to save a list of favorite books for quick reference.  For example, here is my Google Books ?library? of notable books that I found interesting:

http://books.google.com/books?uid=11823015964281975602

I just wish the Dredge book was available.  I?ve been trying to locate a copy of this one for years without luck.

[gnildir1]

Here's another one that you may like, it is written by Francis Jehl, staff assistant to Thomas A Edison.  http://www.archive.org/details/manufactureofcar00jehluoft

There's another book that I did read by him and there are a lot of rare photographs in it.  It is called "Menlo Park - Reminiscence.  You will learn a whole lot about Thomas A Edison and more of his other inventions.