Edison

 

A Biography

 

 

by Matthew Josephson

 

 

 

Published by Plunkett Lake Press, May 2018

 

 

© 1959 by Matthew Josephson

 

 

 

Cover by Susan Erony

 

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Contents

 

Introduction and Acknowledgments

1 ~ The Edisons

2 ~ Childhood and boyhood

3 ~ The wanderyears

4 ~ The free-lance inventor

5 ~ Pluck-and-luck Edison

6 ~ “A bloated eastern manufacturer”

7 ~ The inventor and the “Barons”

8 ~ Menlo Park

9 ~ The legend of the “Wizard”

10 ~ Toward the light of the world

11 ~ The break-through

12 ~ The Edison system

13 ~ Pearl Street

14 ~ “Science and dollars...”

15 ~ The middle years: second marriage

16 ~ The Edison laboratory, West Orange

17 ~ Formation of General Electric

18 ~ Breaking rocks

19 ~ Motion pictures

20 ~ A stern chase: the storage battery

21 ~ Canonization

22 ~ Sunset, with electric illuminations