The life and inventions of Thomas Alva Edision

William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, Antonia Dickson

T. Y. Crowell, 1894 - Technology & Engineering - 362 pages

Contents

• CHAPTER I: 1
• EDISON AT HIS HOMEGLENMONT frontispiece: 5
• OUR LUCKLESS HERO FOUND HIMSELF ON THE PLATFORM: 11
• DASHING HIS PAPERS ASIDE HE PLUNGED TO THE RESCUE: 16
• CHAPTER II: 27
• IF BILLY EVER DOES THIS AGAIN ILL DISCHARGE HIM: 34
• A SPECIMEN OF EDISONS HANDWRITING: 41
• CHAPTER III: 45
• EDISON LOWERED THE NITROGLYCERINE INTO THE SEWER: 47
• THE EDISON UNIVERSAL STOCK PRINTER: 53
• CHAPTER IV: 63
• EDISON LABORATORY AND FACTORY IN NEWARK 1873: 68
• CHAPTER V: 72
• ROMAN LETTER PERFORATOR FOR EDISON AUTOMATIC TELEGRAPH: 74
• MORSE PERFORATING MACHINE: 78
• CYLINDER AND DIAPHRAGM: 85
• CHAPTER VII: 108
• EDISONS MICROTASIMETER: 109
• CHAPTER VIII: 116
• EDISON AND HIS CHIEF ASSISTANTS 1889: 117
• CHAPTER IX: 122
• FIRST SKETCH OF THE PHONOGRAPH: 123
• ONE OF EDISONS EARLY PHONOGRAPHS: 129
• HUMAN VOICE RECORDS: 136
• CHAPTER X: 139
• SOMETHING FUNNY: 145
• CHAPTER XI: 154
• CHAPTER XIII: 177
• CHAPTER XIV: 187
• CHAPTER XV: 200
• CHAPTER XVI: 212
• CHAPTER XVII: 229
• CHAPTER XVIII: 241
• CHAPTER XX: 270
• CHAPTER XXI: 280
• CHAPTER XXII: 297
• CHAPTER XXIII: 320
• CHAPTER XXIV: 339

Bibliographic information

• Title: The life and inventions of Thomas Alva Edision
• Authors: William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, Antonia Dickson
• Publisher: T. Y. Crowell, 1894
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Sep 28, 2007
• Length: 362 pages
• Subjects: Inventions; Technology & Engineering / Electrical; Technology & Engineering / Inventions