Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer (1870 - 1941) and Thomas Commerford Martin (1856 - 1924)
Librivox
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." (written by Justin Barrett, with authors' quote taken from the work itself)
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United States
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Arts & Culture Podcasts
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Librivox
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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." (written by Justin Barrett, with authors' quote taken from the work itself)
Language:
English
Appendix: Foreign Patents
Duration:00:02:30
Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 2
Duration:00:47:56
Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 1
Duration:01:05:26
Appendix XIX. Edison's Poured Cement House
Duration:00:09:26
Appendix XVIII. Edison's New Storage Battery
Duration:00:15:33
Appendix XVII. The Long Cement Kiln
Duration:00:09:43
Appendix XVI. Edison's Ore-Milling Inventions
Duration:00:18:14
Appendix XV. Kinetograph And Projecting Kinetoscope
Duration:00:08:38
Appendix XIV. Train Telegraphy
Duration:00:05:59
Appendix XIII. Edison's Electric Railway
Duration:00:17:46
Appendix XII. The Three-Wire System
Duration:00:10:24
Appendix XI. The Edison Feeder System
Duration:00:15:57
Appendix X. Edison's Dynamo Work
Duration:00:32:04
Appendix IX. The Incandescent Lamp
Duration:00:13:00
Appendix VIII. The Edison Phonograph
Duration:00:14:57
Appendix VII. Edison's Tasimeter
Duration:00:05:16
Appendix VI. The Telephone
Duration:00:10:00
Appendix V. The Electromotograph
Duration:00:09:22
Appendix IV. Wireless Telegraphy
Duration:00:30:24
Appendix III. Automatic Telegraphy
Duration:00:18:51