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The Boys’ Life of Edison

by William H. Meadowcroft

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2I — The Early Days of Electricity
  3. 3II — Edison’s Family
  4. 4III — Edison’s Early Boyhood
  5. 5IV — The Young Newsboy
  6. 6V — A Few Stories of Edison’s Newsboy Days
  7. 7VI — The Young Telegraph Operator
  8. 8VII — Adventures of a Telegraph Operator
  9. 9VIII — Work and Invention in Boston
  10. 10IX — From Poverty to Independence
  11. 11X — A Busy Young Inventor
  12. 12XI — The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone
  13. 13XII — Making a Machine Talk
  14. 14XIII — A New Light in the World
  15. 15XIV — Menlo Park
  16. 16XV — Beginning the Electric Light Business
  17. 17XVI — The First Edison Central Station
  18. 18XVII — Edison’s Electric Railway
  19. 19XVIII — Grinding Mountains to Dust
  20. 20XIX — Edison Makes Portland Cement
  21. 21XX — Motion-Pictures
  22. 22XXI — Edison Invents a New Storage Battery
  23. 23XXII — Edison’s Miscellaneous Inventions
  24. 24XXIII — Edison’s Method in Inventing
  25. 25XXIV — Edison’s Laboratory at Orange
  26. 26XXV — Edison Himself
  27. 27XXVI — Edison’s New Phonograph
  28. 28XXVII — Edison’s Work During the War

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