EDISON AT WORK IN ONE OF THE CHEMICAL ROOMS AT THEORANGE LABORATORY
THE BOYS' LIFE OF EDISON
WITH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
BY MR. EDISON
ILLUSTRATED
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | |
| Introduction | |
| I. | The Early Days of Electricity |
| II. | Edison's Family |
| III. | Edison's Early Boyhood |
| IV. | The Young Newsboy |
| V. | A Few Stories of Edison's Newsboy Days |
| VI. | The Young Telegraph Operator |
| VII. | Adventures of a Telegraph Operator |
| VIII. | Work and Invention in Boston |
| IX. | From Poverty to Independence |
| X. | A Busy Young Inventor |
| XI. | The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone |
| XII. | Making a Machine Talk |
| XIII. | A New Light in the World |
| XIV. | Menlo Park |
| XV. | Beginning the Electric Light Business |
| XVI. | The First Edison Central Station |
| XVII. | Edison's Electric Railway |
| XVIII. | Grinding Mountains to Dust |
| XIX. | Edison Makes Portland Cement |
| XX. | Motion-Pictures |
| XXI. | Edison Invents a New Storage Battery |
| XXII. | Edison's Miscellaneous Inventions |
| XXIII. | Edison's Method in Inventing |
| XXIV. | Edison's Laboratory at Orange |
| XXV. | Edison Himself |
| XXVI. | Edison's New Phonograph |
| XXVII. | Edison's Work During the War |
ILLUSTRATIONS
EDISON AT WORK IN ONE OF THE CHEMICAL ROOMS AT THE ORANGE LABORATORY
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