| CHAP. | |
| | [Introduction] |
| [I.] | The Early Days of Electricity |
| [II.] | Edison's Family |
| [III.] | Edison's Early Boyhood |
| [IV.] | The Young Newsboy |
| [V.] | A Few Stories of Edison's Newsboy Days |
| [VI.] | The Young Telegraph Operator |
| [VII.] | Adventures of a Telegraph Operator |
| [VIII.] | Work and Invention in Boston |
| [IX.] | From Poverty to Independence |
| [X.] | A Busy Young Inventor |
| [XI.] | The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone |
| [XII.] | Making a Machine Talk |
| [XIII.] | A New Light in the World |
| [XIV.] | Menlo Park |
| [XV.] | Beginning the Electric Light Business |
| [XVI.] | The First Edison Central Station |
| [XVII.] | Edison's Electric Railway |
| [XVIII.] | Grinding Mountains to Dust |
| [XIX.] | Edison Makes Portland Cement |
| [XX.] | Motion-Pictures |
| [XXI.] | Edison Invents a New Storage Battery |
| [XXII.] | Edison's Miscellaneous Inventions |
| [XXIII.] | Edison's Method in Inventing |
| [XXIV.] | Edison's Laboratory at Orange |
| [XXV.] | Edison Himself |
| [XXVI.] | Edison's New Phonograph |
| [XXVII.] | Edison's Work During the War |