Edison: His Life and Inventions
1910
The authorized life of Thomas Edison by Dyer and Martin, written in 1910 with Edison's cooperation: the newsboy and telegrapher years, Menlo Park, the phonograph, the electric light, and the wars of the currents, with a technical appendix on the inventions themselves.
- Introduction
- Edison His Life and Inventions
- 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
- Introduction to the Appendix
- the Stock Printer
- the Quadruplex and Phonoplex
- III—automatic telegraphy
- Wireless Telegraphy
- the Electromotograph
- the Telephone
- Edison's Tasimeter
- the Edison Phonograph
- Edison's Dynamo Work
- the Edison Feeder System
- the Three-Wire System
- Edison's Electric Railway
- Train Telegraphy
- Kinetograph and Projecting Kinetoscope
- Edison's Ore-Milling Inventions
- the Long Cement Kiln
- Edison's New Storage Battery
- Edison's Poured Cement House
- List of United States Patents