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Edison: His Life and Inventions

by Frank Lewis Dyer

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Contents

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

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