Edison, His Life and Inventions

by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin · Free audiobook · 53 chapters

Librivox recording of Edison, His Life and Inventions , by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin. 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 incredible capacity, reveals the exercise of his unsurpassed inventive ability, his keen reasoning powers, his tenacious memory, his fertility of resource; follows him through a series of innumerable experiments, conducted methodically, reaching out like rays of search-light into all the regions of science and nature, and finally exhibits him emerging triumphantly from countless difficulties bearing with him in new arts the fruits of victorious struggle." (Summary by Justin Barrett, with authors' quote taken from the work itself) Read by Librivox volunteers. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org . Download M4B part 1 (136MB) Download M4B part 2 (142MB) Download M4B part 3 (143MB) Download M4B part 4 (123MB) Download M4B part 5 (143MB) Download M4B part 6 (135MB)

Chapters

• 1. 00 - Introduction5:38
• 2. 01 - The Age of Electricity13:42
• 3. 02 - Edison's Pedigree21:43
• 4. 03 - Boyhood At Port Huron, Michigan45:52
• 5. 04 - The Young Telegraph Operator30:02
• 6. 05 - Arduous Years In The Central West51:48
• 7. 06 - Work And Invention In Boston24:30
• 8. 07 - The Stock Ticker44:09
• 9. 08 - Automatic, Duplex, and Quadruplex Telegraphy57:24
• 10. 09 - The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone1:07:55
• 11. 10 - The Phonograph47:12
• 12. 11 - The Invention Of The Incandescent Lamp51:21
• 13. 12 - Memories Of Menlo Park52:50
• 14. 13 - A World Hunt for Filament Material29:57
• 15. 14 - A Complete System of Lighting58:09
• 16. 15 - Introduction Of The Edison Electric Light1:04:37
• 17. 16 - The First Edison Central Station56:06
• 18. 17 - Other Early Stations -- the Meter59:08
• 19. 18 - The Electric Railway48:31
• 20. 19 - Magentic Ore Milling Work45:44
• 21. 20 - Edison Portland Cement35:44
• 22. 21 - Motion Pictures52:48
• 23. 22 - The Development Of The Edison Storage Battery39:39
• 24. 23 - Miscellaneous Inventions36:57
• 25. 24 - Edison's Method In Inventing47:30
• 26. 25 - The Laboratory At Orange And The Staff45:24
• 27. 26 - Edison In Commerce And Manufacture44:02
• 28. 27 - Value of Edison's Inventions to the World52:10
• 29. 28 - The Black Flag1:10:14
• 30. 29 - The Social Side Of Edison1:10:25
• 31. 30 - Introduction to Appendix2:17
• 32. 31 - Appendix I. The Stock Printer14:45
• 33. 32 - Appendix II. The Quadruplex And Phonoplex32:14
• 34. 33 - Appendix III. Automatic Telegraphy18:51
• 35. 34 - Appendix IV. Wireless Telegraphy30:24
• 36. 35 - Appendix V. The Electromotograph9:22
• 37. 36 - Appendix VI. The Telephone10:01
• 38. 37 - Appendix VII. Edison's Tasimeter5:16
• 39. 38 - Appendix VIII. The Edison Phonograph14:59
• 40. 39 - Appendix IX. The Incandescent Lamp13:00
• 41. 40 - Appendix X. Edison's Dynamo Work32:04
• 42. 41 - Appendix XI. The Edison Feeder System15:57
• 43. 42 - Appendix XII. The Three Wire System10:25
• 44. 43 - Appendix XIII. Edison's Electric Railway17:46
• 45. 44 - Appendix XIV. Train Telegraphy6:00
• 46. 45 - Appendix XV. Kinetograph And Projecting Kinetoscope8:38
• 47. 46 - Appendix XVI. Edison's Ore-Milling Inventions18:14
• 48. 47 - Appendix XVII. The Long Cement Kiln9:44
• 49. 48 - Appendix XVIII. Edison's New Storage Battery15:33
• 50. 49 - Appendix XIX. Edison's Poured Cement House9:27
• 51. 50 - Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 11:05:35
• 52. 51 - Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 248:03
• 53. 52 - Appendix: Foreign Patents2:30