Edison
His Life and Inventions
Published on 1. August 2010
740 pages
978-1-77651-245-4 (ISBN)
Description
Gain new insight into the life of quintessential American inventor Thomas Alva Edison with this comprehensive biography. Delving deeply into the personal and professional life of "e;The Wizard of Menlo Park,"e; author Frank Lewis Dyer offers a fascinating glimpse into Edison's extraordinary mind and remarkable ambition.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- 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
- Appendix
- List of United States Patents
- Endnotes
