Edison His Life and Inventions

Fiction & Literature, Classics, Biography & Memoir

• Author: Thomas Commerford Martin
• ISBN: 1230000266771
• Publisher: The Perfect Library
• Publication: September 8, 2014
• Language: English

Edison His Life and Inventions
Thomas Commerford Martin, american electrical engineer and editor (1856-1924)

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Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- INTRODUCTION
-03- THE AGE OF ELECTRICITY
-04- EDISON'S PEDIGREE
-05- BOYHOOD AT PORT HURON, MICHIGAN
-06- THE YOUNG TELEGRAPH OPERATOR
-07- ARDUOUS YEARS IN THE CENTRAL WEST
-08- WORK AND INVENTION IN BOSTON
-09- THE STOCK TICKER
-10- AUTOMATIC, DUPLEX, AND QUADRUPLEX TELEGRAPHY
-11- THE TELEPHONE, MOTOGRAPH, AND MICROPHONE
-12- THE PHONOGRAPH
-13- THE INVENTION OF THE INCANDESCENT LAMP
-14- MEMORIES OF MENLO PARK
-15- A WORLD HUNT FOR FILAMENT MATERIAL
-16- INVENTING A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF LIGHTING
-17- INTRODUCTION OF THE EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT
-18- THE FIRST EDISON CENTRAL STATION
-19- OTHER EARLY STATIONS THE METER
-20- THE ELECTRIC RAILWAY
-21- MAGNETIC ORE MILLING WORK
-22- EDISON PORTLAND CEMENT
-23- MOTION PICTURES
-24- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EDISON STORAGE BATTERY
-25- MISCELLANEOUS INVENTIONS
-26- EDISON'S METHOD IN INVENTING
-27- THE LABORATORY AT ORANGE AND THE STAFF
-28- EDISON IN COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURE
-29- THE VALUE OF EDISON'S INVENTIONS TO THE WORLD
-30- THE BLACK FLAG
-31- THE SOCIAL SIDE OF EDISON
-32- INTRODUCTION TO THE APPENDIX
-33- APPENDICES