HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

CONTENTS

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

ILLUSTRATIONS

[EDISON AT WORK IN ONE OF THE CHEMICAL ROOMS AT THE ORANGE LABORATORY]

[EDISON WHEN ABOUT FOURTEEN OR FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE]

[MR. EDISON AT THE CLOSE OF FIVE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF CONTINUED WORK IN PERFECTING THE EARLY WAX-CYLINDER TYPE OF PHONOGRAPH—JUNE 16, 1888]

[THE EDISON ELECTRIC RAILWAY AT MENLO PARK—1880]

[EDISON AT THE OFFICE DOOR OF THE ORE-CONCENTRATING PLANT AT EDISON, NEW JERSEY, IN THE 'NINETIES]