The Boy's Life of Edison (Google eBook)

William Henry Meadowcroft

Harper & Brothers, 1911 - Inventors - 331 pages

Traces the life and contributions of the American genius who changed the world forever through his inventions including the electric lightbulb and the phonograph.

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Contents

• The Early Days op Electricity i: 7
• Edisons Early Boyhood: 19
• The Young Newsboy: 27
• A Few Stories of Edisons Newsboy Days: 42
• The Young Telegraph Operator: 55
• Adventures of a Telegraph Operator: 66
• Work and Invention in Boston: 102
• From Poverty to Independence: 119
• A Busy Young Inventor: 137
• The Telephone Motograph and Micro phone: 159
• Making a Machine Talk 4: 175
• A New Light in the World: 183
• Menlo Park: 197
• Beginning the Electric Light Business: 208
• The First Edison Central Station: 219
• Edisons Electric Railway: 229
• Grinding Mountains to Dust: 239
• Edison Makes Portland Cement: 253
• MotionPictures: 264
• Edison Invents a New Storage Battery: 274
• Edisons Miscellaneous Inventions: 284
• Edisons Method in Inventing: 294
• Edisons Laboratory at Orange: 306
• Edison Himself: 318
• Index: 327

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Boy's Life of Edison; May G. Quigley collection
• Author: William Henry Meadowcroft
• Publisher: Harper & Brothers, 1911
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Nov 30, 2007
• Length: 331 pages