Edison and His Inventions...

... Including the many incidents, anecdotes, and interesting particulars connected with the early and late life of the great inventor.

Green cloth 8vo, 171pp + (5)p illustrated ads at rear. Very Good- with heavy rubbing to tips, lower front corner worn away. Early Edison biography including his own descriptions of various inventions, both successful and not. Very handsome illustrations, duplicated at rear in an exciting flourish of technical details and women modeling the devices.

Contents: A Great Man -- Personal Description -- In the Laboratory -- Edison's Early Life -- Edison as "Train Boy" -- Early Reminiscences -- The Young Electrician -- The Young Operator -- The Young Inventor and Operator -- Edison's Ups and Downs -- Young Edison in Boston -- Edison in New York -- Edison in Newark -- Edison's Courtship and Marriage -- In Menlo Park -- Edison's Principal Inventions -- The Quadruplex -- The Phonograph -- Possibilities of the Phonograph -- The Phonograph's Arrival "Out West" -- Phonographic Records Under the Microscope -- The Phonograph Supreme at Home -- "Uncle Remus" and the Phonograph -- Moses and the Toddygraph -- How the "Phonograph Man is said to Amuse Himself -- How the Phonograph Frightened a Preacher -- How the Phonograph was Discovered by Mr. Edison -- Edison Joking with the Phonograph -- Edison's Electric Pen -- The Electro-monograph -- The Telephone -- Testing Edison's Telephone -- Wonderful Olfactory Powers of the Telephone -- Burdette and Edison Testing the Spanktrophone -- Eli Perkins and Mr. Edison -- Satisfactory Evidence -- Dawdles Tries the Telephone -- Telephone and the Doctors -- The Telephonograph -- Edison's "Baby" -- The Megaphone -- The Sonorous Voltameter -- Edison Joking his Friends -- Down in the Gold Mines -- Edison's Anecdote of the Rocky Mountain Scouts -- The Tasimeter or Thermopile -- The Tasimeter and the Stars -- Testing the Tasimeter on the Sun's Corona -- Basis of the Tasimeter -- Pressure Relay -- The Carbon Rheostat -- The Aerophone -- Edison's Phonometer -- Edison's Harmonic Engine -- The Motograph Reciever -- Etheric Force -- The Electric Light -- Edison's Explanation of his Electric Light.