Edison, His Life and Inventions

By Dyer, Frank Lewis

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Title:	Edison, His Life and Inventions
Author:	Dyer, Frank Lewis
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Excerpt
Introduction: PRIOR to this, no complete, authentic, and authorized record of the work of Mr. Edison, during an active life, has been given to the world. That life, if there is anything in heredity, is very far from finished; and while it continues there will be new achievement. An insistently expressed desire on the part of the public for a definitive biography of Edison was the reason for the following pages. The present authors deem themselves happy in the confidence reposed in them, and in the constant assistance they have enjoyed from Mr. Edison while preparing these pages, a great many of which are altogether his own. This co?operation in no sense relieves the authors of responsibility as to any of the views or statements of their own that the book contains. They have realized the extreme reluctance of Mr. Edison to be made the subject of any biography at all; while he has felt that, if it must be written, it were best done by the hands of friends and associates of long standing, whose judgment and discretion he could trust, and whose intimate knowledge of the facts would save him from misrepresentation.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Edison, His Life and Inventions, 1 -- Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, 1 -- Introduction, 2 -- Chapter I. THE AGE OF ELECTRICITY, 3 -- Chapter II. EDISON'S PEDIGREE, 5 -- Chapter III. BOYHOOD AT PORT HURON, MICHIGAN, 10 -- Chapter IV. THE YOUNG TELEGRAPH OPERATOR, 18 -- Chapter V. ARDUOUS YEARS IN THE CENTRAL WEST, 23 -- Chapter VI. WORK AND INVENTION IN BOSTON, 33 -- Chapter VII. THE STOCK TICKER, 38 -- Chapter VIII. AUTOMATIC, DUPLEX, AND QUADRUPLEX TELEGRAPHY, 46 -- Chapter IX. THE TELEPHONE, MOTOGRAPH, AND MICROPHONE, 56 -- Chapter X. THE PHONOGRAPH, 67 -- Chapter XI. THE INVENTION OF THE INCANDESCENT LAMP, 77 -- Chapter XII. MEMORIES OF MENLO PARK, 88 -- Chapter XIII. A WORLD?HUNT FOR FILAMENT MATERIAL, 98 -- Chapter XIV. INVENTING A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF LIGHTING, 105 -- Chapter XV. Introduction OF THE EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT, 115 -- Chapter XVI. THE FIRST EDISON CENTRAL STATION, 126 -- Chapter XVII. OTHER EARLY STATIONS -- THE METER, 137 -- Chapter XVIII. THE ELECTRIC RAILWAY, 148 -- Chapter XIX. MAGNETIC ORE MILLING WORK, 156 -- Chapter XX. EDISON PORTLAND CEMENT, 167 -- Chapter XXI. MOTION PICTURES, 174 -- Chapter XXII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY, 181 -- Chapter XXIII. MISCELLANEOUS INVENTIONS, 189 -- Chapter XXIV. EDISON'S METHOD IN INVENTING, 197 -- Chapter XXV. THE LABORATORY AT ORANGE AND THE STAFF, 209 -- Chapter XXVI. EDISON IN COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURE, 219 -- Chapter XXVII. THE VALUE OF EDISON'S INVENTIONS TO THE WORLD, 227 -- Chapter XXVIII. THE BLACK FLAG, 235 -- Chapter XXIX. THE SOCIAL SIDE OF EDISON, 248 -- LIST OF UNITED STATES PATENTS, 320 -- FOREIGN PATENTS, 340