Edison, His Life and Inventions
By Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin · Running time 29:41:34 · *Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering
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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 incre
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