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Edison: His Life and Inventions

by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Chapter I — The Age of Electricity
  3. 3Chapter II — Edison’s Pedigree
  4. 4Chapter III — Boyhood at Port Huron, Michigan
  5. 5Chapter IV — The Young Telegraph Operator
  6. 6Chapter V — Arduous Years in the Central West
  7. 7Chapter VI — Work and Invention in Boston
  8. 8Chapter VII — The Stock Ticker
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Automatic, Duplex, and Quadruplex Telegraphy
  10. 10Chapter IX — The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone
  11. 11Chapter X — The Phonograph
  12. 12Chapter XI — The Invention of the Incandescent Lamp
  13. 13Chapter XII — Memories of Menlo Park
  14. 14Chapter XIII — A World-Hunt for Filament Material
  15. 15Chapter XIV — Inventing a Complete System of Lighting
  16. 16Chapter XV — Introduction of the Edison Electric Light
  17. 17Chapter XVI — The First Edison Central Station
  18. 18Chapter XVII — Other Early Stations — The Meter
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — The Electric Railway
  20. 20Chapter XIX — Magnetic Ore Milling Work
  21. 21Chapter XX — Edison Portland Cement
  22. 22Chapter XXI — Motion Pictures
  23. 23Chapter XXII — The Development of the Edison Storage Battery
  24. 24Chapter XXIII — Miscellaneous Inventions
  25. 25Chapter XXIV — Edison’s Method in Inventing
  26. 26Chapter XXV — The Laboratory at Orange and the Staff
  27. 27Chapter XXVI — Edison in Commerce and Manufacture
  28. 28Chapter XXVII — The Value of Edison’s Inventions to the World
  29. 29Chapter XXVIII — The Black Flag
  30. 30Chapter XXIX — The Social Side of Edison
  31. 31Introduction to the Appendix
  32. 32Appendix
  33. 33II — The Quadruplex and Phonoplex
  34. 34III — Automatic Telegraphy
  35. 35IV — Wireless Telegraphy
  36. 36V — The Electromotograph
  37. 37VI — The Telephone
  38. 38VII — Edison’s Tasimeter
  39. 39VIII — The Edison Phonograph
  40. 40X — Edison’s Dynamo Work
  41. 41XI — The Edison Feeder System
  42. 42XII — The Three-Wire System
  43. 43XIII — Edison’s Electric Railway
  44. 44XIV — Train Telegraphy
  45. 45XV — Kinetograph and Projecting Kinetoscope
  46. 46XVI — Edison’s Ore-Milling Inventions
  47. 47XVII — The Long Cement Kiln
  48. 48XVIII — Edison’s New Storage Battery
  49. 49XIX — Edison’s Poured Cement House
  50. 50List of United States Patents
  51. 51Foreign Patents

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