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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I

THE AGE OF ELECTRICITY

CHAPTER II

EDISON'S PEDIGREE

CHAPTER III

BOYHOOD AT PORT HURON, MICHIGAN

CHAPTER IV

THE YOUNG TELEGRAPH OPERATOR

CHAPTER V

ARDUOUS YEARS IN THE CENTRAL WEST

CHAPTER VI

WORK AND INVENTION IN BOSTON

CHAPTER VII

THE STOCK TICKER

CHAPTER VIII

AUTOMATIC, DUPLEX, AND QUADRUPLEX TELEGRAPHY

CHAPTER IX

THE TELEPHONE, MOTOGRAPH, AND MICROPHONE

CHAPTER X

THE PHONOGRAPH

CHAPTER XI

THE INVENTION OF THE INCANDESCENT LAMP

CHAPTER XII

MEMORIES OF MENLO PARK

CHAPTER XIII

A WORLD-HUNT FOR FILAMENT MATERIAL

CHAPTER XIV

INVENTING A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF LIGHTING

CHAPTER XV

INTRODUCTION OF THE EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT

CHAPTER XVI

THE FIRST EDISON CENTRAL STATION

CHAPTER XVII

OTHER EARLY STATIONS — THE METER

CHAPTER XVIII

THE ELECTRIC RAILWAY

CHAPTER XIX

MAGNETIC ORE MILLING WORK

CHAPTER XX

EDISON PORTLAND CEMENT

CHAPTER XXI

MOTION PICTURES

CHAPTER XXII

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY

CHAPTER XXIII

MISCELLANEOUS INVENTIONS

CHAPTER XXIV

EDISON'S METHOD IN INVENTING

CHAPTER XXV

THE LABORATORY AT ORANGE AND THE STAFF

CHAPTER XXVI

EDISON IN COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURE

CHAPTER XXVII

THE VALUE OF EDISON'S INVENTIONS TO THE WORLD

CHAPTER XXVIII

THE BLACK FLAG

CHAPTER XXIX

THE SOCIAL SIDE OF EDISON

INTRODUCTION TO THE APPENDIX

APPENDIX

I. THE STOCK PRINTER

II. THE QUADRUPLEX AND PHONOPLEX

III. AUTOMATIC TELEGRAPHY

IV. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

V. THE ELECTROMOTOGRAPH

VI. THE TELEPHONE

VII. EDISON'S TASIMETER

VIII. THE EDISON PHONOGRAPH

X. EDISON'S DYNAMO WORK

XI. THE EDISON FEEDER SYSTEM

XII. THE THREE-WIRE SYSTEM

XIII. EDISON'S ELECTRIC RAILWAY

XIV. TRAIN TELEGRAPHY

XV. KINETOGRAPH AND PROJECTING KINETOSCOPE

XVI. EDISON'S ORE-MILLING INVENTIONS

XVII. THE LONG CEMENT KILN

XVIII. EDISON'S NEW STORAGE BATTERY

XIX. EDISON'S POURED CEMENT HOUSE

LIST OF UNITED STATES PATENTS

FOREIGN PATENTS

About the Authors

FRANK LEWIS DYER

General Counsel For The Edison Laboratory And Allied Interests

THOMAS COMMERFORD MARTIN

Ex-President Of The American Institute Of Electrical Engineers