Association of Edison Illuminating Companies. Edison Honored Throughout the Entire World. New York: Association of Edison Illuminating Companies, c1929.
Baldwin, Neil. Edison, Inventing the Century. New York: Hyperion, c1995.
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The Democratic Experience. New York: Vintage Books, 1973.
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Cleveland: World Pub. Co., (1964, c1949).
Capper, Charles & Hollinger, David A. The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II, 1865 to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Clark, Ronald Williams. Edison, the Man who Made the Future. New York: Putnam, 1977.
Conot, Robert E. A Streak of Luck. New York: Seaview Books, c1979.
Dyer, Frank Lewis. Edison, His Life and Inventions. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1910.
Ford, Henry. Edison as I Know Him. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1930.
Gabler, Neal. An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. New York: Crown Publishers, c1988.
Kevles, Daniel J. The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.
Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden; Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. New York: Oxford University Press, (1977, c1964).
MGM/UA Home Video. "Young Tom Edison" and "Edison, the Man." Culver City, Calif.": MGM/UA Home Video, c1993.
Melosi, Martin V. Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, c1990.
Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1934.
Nye, David E. Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.
Nye, David E. The Invented Self: An Anti-Biography, from Documents of Thomas A. Edison. Odense University Press, 1983.
Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
