Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland

Edison's electric light : biography of an invention / Robert Friedel & Paul Israel with Bernard S. Finn.

Pioneer plastic : the making and selling of celluloid / Robert Friedel.

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Edison's electric light : biography of an invention / Robert Friedel & Paul Israel with Bernard S. Finn.

Pioneer plastic : the making and selling of celluloid / Robert Friedel.