Edison and His Inventions: Including the Many Incidents, Anecdotes, and Interesting Particulars Connected with the Early and Late Life of the Great Inventor. Also Full Explanations of the Newly Perfected Phonograph, Telephone, Tasimeter, Electric Light, and All His Principal Discoveries ...James Baird McClure |
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... RECORDS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE - How the letters look -- Believed by Edison to be legible - The deepest indentations made by consonants , · A GREAT AND WONDERFUL INSTRUMENT NOW COM- PLETED - The new Phonograph as explained fully by Mr ...
... RECORDS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE - How the letters look -- Believed by Edison to be legible - The deepest indentations made by consonants , · A GREAT AND WONDERFUL INSTRUMENT NOW COM- PLETED - The new Phonograph as explained fully by Mr ...
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... Records under the Microscope ---- 87 Phonometer 142 Pressure Relay .. 137 Printing the " Grand Trunk Herald " on the Train 39 Quadruplex 74 Railway Car Showing How to Telegraph on a Moving Train ... 205 Samuel Edison , Father of the ...
... Records under the Microscope ---- 87 Phonometer 142 Pressure Relay .. 137 Printing the " Grand Trunk Herald " on the Train 39 Quadruplex 74 Railway Car Showing How to Telegraph on a Moving Train ... 205 Samuel Edison , Father of the ...
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... record of whose varied vociferations Mr. Edison is said statedly to be recording with his wonderful phonograph , just to show it after a while when it has grown to young womanhood how it could and did , without a doubt , chirrup , cry ...
... record of whose varied vociferations Mr. Edison is said statedly to be recording with his wonderful phonograph , just to show it after a while when it has grown to young womanhood how it could and did , without a doubt , chirrup , cry ...
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... record over two hundred words a min- ute on a wire two hundred and fifty miles long . He has since succeeded in recording thirty - one hundred words a minute . " Edison's Monument to Electricity . THE NEW LABORATORY AT LLEWELLYN AND HIS ...
... record over two hundred words a min- ute on a wire two hundred and fifty miles long . He has since succeeded in recording thirty - one hundred words a minute . " Edison's Monument to Electricity . THE NEW LABORATORY AT LLEWELLYN AND HIS ...
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... recording registers , one to receive and the other to repeat the embossed writing at slower speed , so it could be copied . When this new arrange- ment was properly adjusted , young Edison felt very secure and at once announced to the ...
... recording registers , one to receive and the other to repeat the embossed writing at slower speed , so it could be copied . When this new arrange- ment was properly adjusted , young Edison felt very secure and at once announced to the ...
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