Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
I. The Early Days of Electricity............ 1 II. Edison's Family.......................... 5 III. Edison's Early Boyhood................... 15 IV. The Young Newsboy........................ 21 V. A Few Stories of Edison's Newsboy Days... 32 VI. The Young Telegraph Operator......
I. The Early Days of Electricity............ 1 II. Edison's Family.......................... 5 III. Edison's Early Boyhood................... 15 IV. The Young Newsboy..............
2. Part 2His father always encouraged his literary tastes, and paid him a small sum for each book which he mastered. Although there is no fiction in the list, Edison has all his life enj...
3. Part 3"The engine was one of a number leased to the Grank Trunk by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. It had bright brass bands all over the woodwork, was beautifully painted, and ever...
4. Part 4During this wandering period of his life Edison made many friends, one of the earliest of whom was Milton F. Adams, who had a strange career. Of him Edison says: "Adams was one...
5. Part 5Indeed, the following story, related by Edison, illustrates the lengths to which telegraphers could go at a time when they were in so much demand: "When I took the position ther...
6. Part 6After the above incident Edison, with increased earnestness, resumed his study of electricity, especially in its application to telegraphy. He did not neglect his chemistry, how...
7. Part 7After the Edison and Pope printer was bought out by the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company, its president, Gen. Marshall Lefferts, requested Edison to go to work on improving the...
8. Part 8"At that time the general superintendent of the Western Union was Gen. T. T. Eckert (who had been Assistant Secretary of War with Stanton). Eckert was secretly negotiating with...
9. Part 9This invention was claimed at the time for Professor Hughes, of England. Whatever credit might be due to him for the form he proposed, a standard history ascribes two original f...
10. Part 10Some of these explorers met with striking adventures during their travels, and all of them sent vast quantities of bamboos, palms, and fibrous grasses to the laboratory for exam...
11. Part 11This dynamo and engine weighed twenty-seven tons, and was then, and for a long time after, the eighth wonder of the scientific world. Its arrival and installation in Paris were...
12. Part 12"Some years ago I heard one day that down at Quogue, Long Island, there were immense deposits of black magnetic sand. This would be very valuable if the iron could be separated...
13. Part 13One of the earliest efforts in this direction was made before Edison was born, and shown by a toy called the Zoetrope, or "Wheel of Life." A number of figures showing fractional...
14. Part 14From first to last Edison has filed in the United States Patent Office more than fourteen hundred applications for patents. Besides, he filed some one hundred and twenty caveats...
15. Part 15Beyond the stock-room is a good-sized machine-shop, well equipped, in which the heavier class of models and mechanical devices are made. Attached to these are the engine-room an...
16. Part 16His excursion into the musical realm has also included the personal hearing of many singers so as to determine their fitness for making phonograph records. This proved to be a w...
17. Part 17The second step in Edison's plan--namely, the quick changing of a ship's course, was accomplished with the "sea anchor." This device consists of a strong canvas bag which is att...