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1 online resource (471 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Historical Figures Ser.
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Historical Figures Ser.
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Intro; Contents; Preface*; 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. |
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A Romance of ScienceChapter 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 18; 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. |
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Chapter 27The Value of Edison's Inventions to the World; Chapter 28; The Black Flag; Chapter 29; The Social Side of Edison; Appendix; Introduction; 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. |
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17. The Long Cement Kiln18. Edison's New Storage Battery; 19. Edison's Poured Cement House; List of United States Patents; Foreign Patents; Index; Blank Page. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931.
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Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931. |
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Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
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Inventors. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Martin, Thomas Commerford, 1856-1924.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dyer, Frank Lewis. Edison : His Life and Inventions. New York : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, ©2018 9781536137491 |
| ISBN |
9781536137507 (electronic book) |
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1536137502 (electronic book) |
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