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
6 ~ “A bloated eastern manufacturer”
7 ~ The inventor and the “Barons”
9 ~ The legend of the “Wizard”
10 ~ Toward the light of the world
15 ~ The middle years: second marriage
16 ~ The Edison laboratory, West Orange
17 ~ Formation of General Electric
20 ~ A stern chase: the storage battery
22 ~ Sunset, with electric illuminations