The Boys' Life of Edison
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The Boys' Life of Edison is by Wm. H. Meadowcroft and comes with autobiographical notes by Mr. Edison. The contents list names chapters called A New Light in the World, Menlo Park, Beginning the Electric Light Business and The First Edison Central Station, among others.
The text says the Edison family consisted of three children, two boys and a girl: besides Thomas Alva, an elder brother, William Pitt, and a sister named Tannie. The text says that as a child the great inventor was not at all strong, and was of fragile appearance. A quoted first-person passage says that from experiments on the telephone the speaker knew of the power of a diaphragm to take up sound vibrations. The text says that nearly two thousand voice records of this kind are in the laboratory at Orange, and that probably this is the most unique voice library in existence.
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- Author
- Wm. H. Meadowcroft
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Pages
- 106
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Biography
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