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."
By : Frank Lewis Dyer (1870 - 1941) and Thomas Commerford Martin (1856 - 1924)
00 - Introduction
01 - The Age of Electricity
02 - Edison's Pedigree
03 - Boyhood At Port Huron, Michigan
04 - The Young Telegraph Operator
05 - Arduous Years In The Central West
06 - Work And Invention In Boston
07 - The Stock Ticker
08 - Automatic, Duplex, and Quadruplex Telegraphy
09 - The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone
10 - The Phonograph
11 - The Invention Of The Incandescent Lamp
12 - Memories Of Menlo Park
13 - A World Hunt for Filament Material
14 - A Complete System of Lighting
15 - Introduction Of The Edison Electric Light
16 - The First Edison Central Station
17 - Other Early Stations -- the Meter
18 - The Electric Railway
19 - Magentic Ore Milling Work
20 - Edison Portland Cement
21 - Motion Pictures
22 - The Development Of The Edison Storage Battery
23 - Miscellaneous Inventions
24 - Edison's Method In Inventing
25 - The Laboratory At Orange And The Staff
26 - Edison In Commerce And Manufacture
27 - Value of Edison's Inventions to the World
28 - The Black Flag
29 - The Social Side Of Edison
30 - Introduction to Appendix
31 - Appendix I. The Stock Printer
32 - Appendix II. The Quadruplex And Phonoplex
33 - Appendix III. Automatic Telegraphy
34 - Appendix IV. Wireless Telegraphy
35 - Appendix V. The Electromotograph
36 - Appendix VI. The Telephone
37 - Appendix VII. Edison's Tasimeter
38 - Appendix VIII. The Edison Phonograph
39 - Appendix IX. The Incandescent Lamp
40 - Appendix X. Edison's Dynamo Work
41 - Appendix XI. The Edison Feeder System
42 - Appendix XII. The Three Wire System
43 - Appendix XIII. Edison's Electric Railway
44 - Appendix XIV. Train Telegraphy
45 - Appendix XV. Kinetograph And Projecting Kinetoscope
46 - Appendix XVI. Edison's Ore-Milling Inventions
47 - Appendix XVII. The Long Cement Kiln
48 - Appendix XVIII. Edison's New Storage Battery
49 - Appendix XIX. Edison's Poured Cement House
50 - Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 1
51 - Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 2
52 - Appendix: Foreign Patents
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and employees. He established the first industrial research laboratory.
Edison was raised in the American Midwest; early in his career he worked as a telegraph operator, which inspired some of his earliest inventions. In 1876, he established his first laboratory facility in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where many of his early inventions were developed. He later established a botanic laboratory in Fort Myers, Florida in collaboration with businessmen Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, and a laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey that featured the world's first film studio, the Black Maria. He was a prolific inventor, holding 1,093 US patents in his name, as well as patents in other countries. Edison married twice and fathered six children. He died in 1931 of the complications of diabetes.
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