Edison, His Life and Inventions
by Frank Lewis DYER (1870 - 1941)
![Edison, His Life and Inventions](http://www.archive.org/download/LibrivoxCdCoverArt6/edison_his_life_and_inventions_1012.jpg)
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)
Listen next episodes of
Edison, His Life and Inventions:
Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 2 ,
A World-Hunt For Filament Material ,
Appendix: Foreign Patents ,
Appendix I. The Stock Printer ,
Appendix II. The Quadruplex And Phonoplex ,
Appendix III. Automatic Telegraphy ,
Appendix: Introduction ,
Appendix IV. Wireless Telegraphy ,
Appendix IX. The Incandescent Lamp ,
Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 1 ,
Appendix V. The Electromotograph ,
Appendix VI. The Telephone ,
Appendix VII. Edison's Tasimeter ,
Appendix VIII. The Edison Phonograph ,
Appendix X. Edison's Dynamo Work ,
Appendix XI. The Edison Feeder System ,
Appendix XII. The Three-Wire System ,
Appendix XIII. Edison's Electric Railway ,
Appendix XIV. Train Telegraphy ,
Appendix XIX. Edison's Poured Cement House ,
Appendix XV. Kinetograph And Projecting Kinetoscope ,
Appendix XVI. Edison's Ore-Milling Inventions ,
Appendix XVII. The Long Cement Kiln ,
Appendix XVIII. Edison's New Storage Battery ,
Automatic, Duplex, And Quadruplex Telegraphy ,
Edison In Commerce And Manufacture ,
Edison Portland Cement ,
Edison's Method In Inventing ,
Introduction Of The Edison Electric Light ,
Inventing A Complete System Of Lighting ,
Magnetic Ore Milling Work ,
Memories Of Menlo Park ,
Miscellaneous Inventions ,
Motion Pictures ,
Other Early Stations -- the Meter ,
The Black Flag ,
The Development Of The Edison Storage Battery ,
The Electric Railway ,
The First Edison Central Station ,
The Invention Of The Incandescent Lamp ,
The Laboratory At Orange And The Staff ,
The Phonograph ,
The Social Side Of Edison ,
The Stock Ticker ,
The Telephone, Motograph, And Microphone ,
The Value Of Edison's Inventions To The World