title: Paul Israel (historian)
text: # Paul Israel (historian)
  
  Paul B. Israel (born 1953) is an American historian who is a specialist in the history of American invention and innovation. He is the director and general editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University.
  
  ## Selected publications
  
  * From machine shop to industrial laboratory : telegraphy and the changing context of American invention, 1830–1920. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1992. ISBN 9780801843792. OCLC 25200620.
  * Edison : a life of invention. New York: John Wiley. 1998. ISBN 9780471529422. OCLC 38295195, 455375655.
  