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Nonfiction · 1910

Edison

His Life and Inventions

Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin

Reading time
about 19 h
Length
262,933 words · 911 pages
Structure
50 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Modern

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Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Chapter I — The Age of Electricity
  3. Chapter II — Edison’s Pedigree
  4. Chapter III — Boyhood at Port Huron, Michigan
  5. Chapter IV — The Young Telegraph Operator
  6. Chapter V — Arduous Years in the Central West
  7. Chapter VI — Work and Invention in Boston
  8. Chapter VII — The Stock Ticker
  9. Chapter VIII — Automatic, Duplex, and Quadruplex Telegraphy
  10. Chapter IX — The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone
  11. Chapter X — The Phonograph
  12. Chapter XI — The Invention of the Incandescent Lamp
  13. Chapter XII — Memories of Menlo Park
  14. Chapter XIII — A World-Hunt for Filament Material
  15. Chapter XIV — Inventing a Complete System of Lighting
  16. Chapter XV — Introduction of the Edison Electric Light
  17. Chapter XVI — The First Edison Central Station
  18. Chapter XVII — Other Early Stations—The Meter
  19. Chapter XVIII — The Electric Railway
  20. Chapter XIX — Magnetic Ore Milling Work
  21. Chapter XX — Edison Portland Cement
  22. Chapter XXI — Motion Pictures
  23. Chapter XXII — The Development of the Edison Storage Battery
  24. Chapter XXIII — Miscellaneous Inventions
  25. Chapter XXIV — Edison’s Method in Inventing
  26. Chapter XXV — The Laboratory at Orange and the Staff
  27. Chapter XXVI — Edison in Commerce and Manufacture
  28. Chapter XXVII — The Value of Edison’s Inventions to the World
  29. Chapter XXVIII — The Black Flag
  30. Chapter XXIX — The Social Side of Edison
  31. Introduction to the Appendix
  32. Chapter I — The Stock Printer
  33. Chapter II — The Quadruplex and Phonoplex
  34. Chapter III — Automatic Telegraphy
  35. Chapter IV — Wireless Telegraphy
  36. Chapter V — The Electromotograph
  37. Chapter VI — The Telephone
  38. Chapter VII — Edison’s Tasimeter
  39. Chapter VIII — The Edison Phonograph
  40. Chapter IX — The Incandescent Lamp
  41. Chapter X — Edison’s Dynamo Work
  42. Chapter XI — The Edison Feeder System
  43. Chapter XII — The Three-Wire System
  44. Chapter XIII — Edison’s Electric Railway
  45. Chapter XIV — Train Telegraphy
  46. Chapter XV — Kinetograph and Projecting Kinetoscope
  47. Chapter XVI — Edison’s Ore-Milling Inventions
  48. Chapter XVII — The Long Cement Kiln
  49. Chapter XVIII — Edison’s New Storage Battery
  50. Chapter XIX — Edison’s Poured Cement House
  51. List of United States Patents
  52. Foreign Patents

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