Description: Edison's Ghosts : The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses, Hardcover by Spalding, Katie, ISBN 0316529524, ISBN-13 9780316529525, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Publishers Weekly Best Summer Reads Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. “As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius – but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” So begins Katie Spalding’s spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there’s probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn’t. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition. For example: Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, believed that he could communicate with the undead and built the world’s very first hotline to heaven: the Spirit Phone. Marie and Pierre Curie, famous for discovering radioactivity, slept next to a lump of radioactive material for years and strapped it to their arms to watch it burn them in real-time. Lord Byron, acclaimed British poet, literally took a bear with him to university. Isaac Newton discovered the laws of gravity and motion, but he also looked up at the sun without eye protection. The result? Three days of blindness. Tesla, whose scientific work led to the invention of the AC unit, fell in love with a pigeon. Edison's Ghosts is filled with examples of the so-called best of humanity doing, to put it bluntly, some really dumb shit. You’ll discover stories that deserve to be told but never are: the hilarious, regrettable, and downright bafflingly lesser-known achievements that never made it into our history books, until now.
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Book Title: Edison's Ghosts : the Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1.4 in
Topic: Topic / Celebrity & Popular Culture, Topic / History, United States / 20th Century, Inventions, Expeditions & Discoveries
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Humor, History
Item Weight: 18.3 Oz
Author: Katie Spalding
Item Length: 9.6 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
