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Edison, His Life and Inventions

Edison, His Life and Inventions

by Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin

*Non-fictionBiography & AutobiographyTechnology & Engineering
53 chapters 29h 41m English 1910

About this book

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)

Chapters (52)

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

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