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Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford MartinEdison, His Life and Inventions

Librivox recording of Edison, His Life and Inventions, by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin.

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, "It is designed in these pages to bring the reader face to face with Edison; to glance at an interesting childhood and a youthful period marked by a capacity for doing things, and by an insatiable thirst for knowledge; then to accompany him into the great creative stretch of forty years, during which he has done so much. This book shows him plunged deeply into work for which he has always had an incredible capacity, reveals the exercise of his unsurpassed inventive ability, his keen reasoning powers, his tenacious memory, his fertility of resource; follows him through a series of innumerable experiments, conducted methodically, reaching out like rays of search-light into all the regions of science and nature, and finally exhibits him emerging triumphantly from countless difficulties bearing with him in new arts the fruits of victorious struggle."
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Artist/Composer: Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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00 - Introduction	5.17 MB	2.90 MB	2.58 MB
01 - The Age of Electricity	13 MB	7.00 MB	6.27 MB
02 - Edison's Pedigree	20 MB	11 MB	9.95 MB
03 - Boyhood At Port Huron, Michigan	42 MB	23 MB	21 MB
04 - The Young Telegraph Operator	28 MB	15 MB	14 MB
05 - Arduous Years In The Central West	47 MB	26 MB	24 MB
06 - Work And Invention In Boston	22 MB	9.98 MB	11 MB
07 - The Stock Ticker	40 MB	16 MB	20 MB
08 - Automatic, Duplex, and Quadruplex Telegraphy	53 MB	28 MB	26 MB
09 - The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone	62 MB	35 MB	31 MB
10 - The Phonograph	43 MB	24 MB	22 MB
11 - The Invention Of The Incandescent Lamp	47 MB	26 MB	24 MB
12 - Memories Of Menlo Park	48 MB	27 MB	24 MB
13 - A World Hunt for Filament Material	27 MB	15 MB	14 MB
14 - A Complete System of Lighting	53 MB	30 MB	27 MB
15 - Introduction Of The Edison Electric Light	59 MB	46 MB	30 MB
16 - The First Edison Central Station	51 MB	30 MB	26 MB
17 - Other Early Stations -- the Meter	54 MB	29 MB	27 MB
18 - The Electric Railway	44 MB	25 MB	22 MB
19 - Magentic Ore Milling Work	42 MB	20 MB	21 MB
20 - Edison Portland Cement	33 MB	18 MB	16 MB
21 - Motion Pictures	48 MB	34 MB	24 MB
22 - The Development Of The Edison Storage Battery	36 MB	20 MB	18 MB
23 - Miscellaneous Inventions	34 MB	19 MB	17 MB
24 - Edison's Method In Inventing	43 MB	23 MB	22 MB
25 - The Laboratory At Orange And The Staff	42 MB	25 MB	21 MB
26 - Edison In Commerce And Manufacture	40 MB	23 MB	20 MB
27 - Value of Edison's Inventions to the World	48 MB	34 MB	24 MB
28 - The Black Flag	64 MB	35 MB	32 MB
29 - The Social Side Of Edison	64 MB	37 MB	32 MB
30 - Introduction to Appendix	2.09 MB	1.14 MB	1.05 MB
31 - Appendix I. The Stock Printer	14 MB	7.26 MB	6.75 MB
32 - Appendix II. The Quadruplex And Phonoplex	30 MB	19 MB	15 MB
33 - Appendix III. Automatic Telegraphy	17 MB	9.71 MB	8.64 MB
34 - Appendix IV. Wireless Telegraphy	28 MB	16 MB	14 MB
35 - Appendix V. The Electromotograph	8.58 MB	4.69 MB	4.29 MB
36 - Appendix VI. The Telephone	9.16 MB	5.09 MB	4.59 MB
37 - Appendix VII. Edison's Tasimeter	4.84 MB	2.79 MB	2.42 MB
38 - Appendix VIII. The Edison Phonograph	14 MB	7.65 MB	6.86 MB
39 - Appendix IX. The Incandescent Lamp	12 MB	6.49 MB	5.96 MB
40 - Appendix X. Edison's Dynamo Work	29 MB	16 MB	15 MB
41 - Appendix XI. The Edison Feeder System	15 MB	7.82 MB	7.30 MB
42 - Appendix XII. The Three Wire System	9.53 MB	5.30 MB	4.77 MB
43 - Appendix XIII. Edison's Electric Railway	16 MB	9.15 MB	8.13 MB
44 - Appendix XIV. Train Telegraphy	5.49 MB	3.04 MB	2.75 MB
45 - Appendix XV. Kinetograph And Projecting Kinetoscope	7.91 MB	4.24 MB	3.95 MB
46 - Appendix XVI. Edison's Ore-Milling Inventions	17 MB	8.73 MB	8.35 MB
47 - Appendix XVII. The Long Cement Kiln	8.90 MB	5.03 MB	4.46 MB
48 - Appendix XVIII. Edison's New Storage Battery	14 MB	7.61 MB	7.12 MB
49 - Appendix XIX. Edison's Poured Cement House	8.64 MB	4.83 MB	4.33 MB
50 - Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 1	60 MB	33 MB	30 MB
51 - Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 2	44 MB	24 MB	22 MB
52 - Appendix: Foreign Patents	2.30 MB	1.23 MB	1.15 MB

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