Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870-1900

List of figures and tables Editors' preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations used in footnotes Introduction 1. The cultivation of a scientific man 2. Learning the craft of invention 3. The Philadelphia partnership, 1879-80 4. Frustration in New Britain, 1880-3 5. Success in Lynn: the Thomson-Houston electric company, 1883-92 6. Maintaining the organization: product development at General Electric, 1892-1900 Epilogue and conclusion Index.