Frank Lewis Dyer
Thomas Commerford Martin

EDISON, HIS LIFE AND INVENTIONS



General Index

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

INTRODUCTION TO THE APPENDIX

APPENDIX I. THE STOCK PRINTER

APPENDIX II. THE QUADRUPLEX AND PHONOPLEX

APPENDIX III. AUTOMATIC TELEGRAPHY

APPENDIX IV. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

APPENDIX V. THE ELECTROMOTOGRAPH

APPENDIX VI. THE TELEPHONE

APPENDIX VII. EDISON'S TASIMETER

APPENDIX VIII. THE EDISON PHONOGRAPH

APPENDIX IX. THE INCANDESCENT LAMP

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 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

APPENDIX XIX. EDISON'S POURED CEMENT HOUSE

LIST OF UNITED STATES PATENTS

FOREIGN PATENTS

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