Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Age of Electricity
Chapter 2. Edison’s Pedigree
Chapter 3. Boyhood at Port Huron, Michigan
Chapter 4. The Young Telegraph Operator
Chapter 5. Arduous Years in the Central WEST
Chapter 6. Work and Invention in Boston
Chapter 7. The Stock Ticker
Chapter 8. Automatic, Duplex, and Quadruplex Telegraphy
Chapter 9. The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone
Chapter 10. The Phonograph
Chapter 11. The Invention of the Incandescent Lamp
Chapter 12. Memories of Menlo Park
Chapter 13. A World-Hunt for Filament Material
Chapter 14. Inventing a Complete System of Lighting
Chapter 15. Introduction of the Edison Electric Light
Chapter 16. The First Edison Central Station
Chapter 17. Other Early Stations-The Meter
Chapter 118. The Electric Railway
Chapter 19. Magnetic Ore Milling Work
Chapter 20. Edison Portland Cement
Chapter 21. Motion Pictures
Chapter 22. The Development of the Edison Storage Battery
Chapter 23. Miscellaneous Inventions
Chapter 24. Edison’s Method in Inventing
Chapter 25. The Laboratory at Orange and the Staff
Chapter 26. Edison in Commerce and Manufacture
Chapter 27. The Value of Edison’s Inventions to the World
Chapter 28. The Black Flag
Chapter 29. The Social Side of Edison
Introduction to the Appendix
Appendix
1. The Stock Printer
2. The Quadruplex and Phonoplex
3. Automatic Telegraphy
4. Wireless Telegraphy
5. The Electromotograph
6. The Telephone
7. Edison’s Tasimeter
8. The Edison Phonograph
9. The Incandescent Lamp
10. Edison’s Dynamo Work
11. The Edison Feeder System
12. The Three-Wire System
13. Edison’s Electric Railway
14. Train Telegraphy
15. Kinetograph and Projecting Kinetoscope
16. Edison’s Ore-Milling Inventions
17. The Long Cement Kiln
18. Edison’s New Storage Battery
19. Edison’s Poured Cement House
List of United States Patents
Foreign Patents