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Edison, His Life and Inventions

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, "It is designed in these pages to bring the reader face to face with Edison; to glance at an interesting childhood and a youthful period marked by a capacity for doing things, and by an insatiable thirst for knowledge; then to accompany him into the great creative stretch of forty years, during which he has done so much. This book shows him plunged deeply into work for which he has always had an incredible capacity, reveals the exercise of his unsurpassed inventive ability, his keen reasoning powers, his tenacious memory, his fertility of resource; follows him through a series of innumerable experiments, conducted methodically, reaching out like rays of search-light into all the regions of science and nature, and finally exhibits him emerging triumphantly from countless difficulties bearing with him in new arts the fruits of victorious struggle." (written by Justin Barrett, with authors' quote taken from the work itself)

Year of Publication: 1910Genres: Technology & Engineering , Biography & Autobiography , *Non-fiction

Running Time: 29 hours 41 minutes 34 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Introduction Justin S Barrett	5:38
2	The Age Of Electricity Justin S Barrett	13:42
3	Edison's Pedigree Justin S Barrett	21:43
4	Boyhood At Port Huron, Michigan Alana Jordan	45:52
5	The Young Telegraph Operator jude kaider	30:02
6	Arduous Years In The Central West ontheroad	51:48
7	Work And Invention In Boston ontheroad	24:30
8	The Stock Ticker RaySee	44:09
9	Automatic, Duplex, And Quadruplex Telegraphy Tysto	57:24
10	The Telephone, Motograph, And Microphone Heidi Preuss	1:07:55
11	The Phonograph J. M. Smallheer	47:12
12	The Invention Of The Incandescent Lamp J. M. Smallheer	51:21
13	Memories Of Menlo Park Ralph Snelson	52:50
14	A World-Hunt For Filament Material Melissa	29:57
15	Inventing A Complete System Of Lighting Heidi Preuss	58:09
16	Introduction Of The Edison Electric Light Nelly (林子)	1:04:28
17	The First Edison Central Station Anthony Wilson	56:06
18	Other Early Stations -- the Meter Mitchell L Leopard	59:08
19	The Electric Railway Heidi Preuss	48:31
20	Magnetic Ore Milling Work William Kevin Manire	45:44
21	Edison Portland Cement Melissa	35:44
22	Motion Pictures Denny Sayers (d. 2015)	52:48
23	The Development Of The Edison Storage Battery Heidi Preuss	39:39
24	Miscellaneous Inventions Kalynda	36:57
25	Edison's Method In Inventing Kalynda	47:30
26	The Laboratory At Orange And The Staff Alec Daitsman	45:24
27	Edison In Commerce And Manufacture Heidi Preuss	44:02
28	The Value Of Edison's Inventions To The World Denny Sayers (d. 2015)	52:10
29	The Black Flag Mitchell L Leopard	1:10:14
30	The Social Side Of Edison Pamnache	1:10:15
31	Appendix: Introduction Melissa	2:17
32	Appendix I. The Stock Printer Melissa	14:45
33	Appendix II. The Quadruplex And Phonoplex Anna-Maria Viola	32:14
34	Appendix III. Automatic Telegraphy Heidi Preuss	18:51
35	Appendix IV. Wireless Telegraphy Heidi Preuss	30:24
36	Appendix V. The Electromotograph Anna Simon	9:22
37	Appendix VI. The Telephone Esther	10:00
38	Appendix VII. Edison's Tasimeter Justin S Barrett	5:16
39	Appendix VIII. The Edison Phonograph Esther	14:57
40	Appendix IX. The Incandescent Lamp Jerome Lawsen	13:00
41	Appendix X. Edison's Dynamo Work Melissa	32:04
42	Appendix XI. The Edison Feeder System Melissa	15:57
43	Appendix XII. The Three-Wire System Esther	10:24
44	Appendix XIII. Edison's Electric Railway Heidi Preuss	17:46
45	Appendix XIV. Train Telegraphy Esther	5:59
46	Appendix XV. Kinetograph And Projecting Kinetoscope Jerome Lawsen	8:38
47	Appendix XVI. Edison's Ore-Milling Inventions Melissa	18:14
48	Appendix XVII. The Long Cement Kiln Esther	9:43
49	Appendix XVIII. Edison's New Storage Battery Jerome Lawsen	15:33
50	Appendix XIX. Edison's Poured Cement House Esther	9:26
51	Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 1 Justin S Barrett	1:05:26
52	Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 2 Esther	47:56
53	Appendix: Foreign Patents Justin S Barrett	2:30