Edison, His Life and Inventions

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - *Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering

Authors: Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin In Year : 1910

Book Language: English

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Introduction
The Age Of Electricity
Edison's Pedigree
Boyhood At Port Huron, Michigan
The Young Telegraph Operator
Arduous Years In The Central West
Work And Invention In Boston
The Stock Ticker
Automatic, Duplex, And Quadruplex Telegraphy
The Telephone, Motograph, And Microphone
The Phonograph
The Invention Of The Incandescent Lamp
Memories Of Menlo Park
A World-Hunt For Filament Material
Inventing A Complete System Of Lighting
Introduction Of The Edison Electric Light
The First Edison Central Station
Other Early Stations -- the Meter
The Electric Railway
Magnetic Ore Milling Work
Edison Portland Cement
Motion Pictures
The Development Of The Edison Storage Battery
Miscellaneous Inventions
Edison's Method In Inventing
The Laboratory At Orange And The Staff
Edison In Commerce And Manufacture
The Value Of Edison's Inventions To The World
The Black Flag
The Social Side Of Edison
Appendix: Introduction
Appendix I. The Stock Printer
Appendix II. The Quadruplex And Phonoplex
Appendix III. Automatic Telegraphy
Appendix IV. Wireless Telegraphy
Appendix V. The Electromotograph
Appendix VI. The Telephone
Appendix VII. Edison's Tasimeter
Appendix VIII. The Edison Phonograph
Appendix IX. The Incandescent Lamp
Appendix X. Edison's Dynamo Work
Appendix XI. The Edison Feeder System
Appendix XII. The Three-Wire System
Appendix XIII. Edison's Electric Railway
Appendix XIV. Train Telegraphy
Appendix XV. Kinetograph And Projecting Kinetoscope
Appendix XVI. Edison's Ore-Milling Inventions
Appendix XVII. The Long Cement Kiln
Appendix XVIII. Edison's New Storage Battery
Appendix XIX. Edison's Poured Cement House
Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 1
Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 2
Appendix: Foreign Patents

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, "It is designed in these pages to bring the reader face to face with Edison; to glance at an interesting childhood and a youthful period marked by a capacity for doing things, and by an insatiable thirst for knowledge; then to accompany him into the great creative stretch of forty years, during which he has done so much. This book shows him plunged deeply into work for which he has always had an incredible capacity, reveals the exercise of his unsurpassed inventive ability, his keen reasoning powers, his tenacious memory, his fertility of resource; follows him through a series of innumerable experiments, conducted methodically, reaching out like rays of search-light into all the regions of science and nature, and finally exhibits him emerging triumphantly from countless difficulties bearing with him in new arts the fruits of victorious struggle." (written by Justin Barrett, with authors' quote taken from the work itself)