Edison, His Life and Inventions


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(4.1 stars; 38 reviews)

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." (written by Justin Barrett, with authors' quote taken from the work itself) (29 hr 41 min)

Chapitres

Introduction 5:38 Lu par Justin S Barrett
The Age Of Electricity 13:42 Lu par Justin S Barrett
Edison's Pedigree 21:43 Lu par Justin S Barrett
Boyhood At Port Huron, Michigan 45:52 Lu par Alana Jordan
The Young Telegraph Operator 30:02 Lu par jude kaider
Arduous Years In The Central West 51:48 Lu par ontheroad
Work And Invention In Boston 24:30 Lu par ontheroad
The Stock Ticker 44:09 Lu par RaySee
Automatic, Duplex, And Quadruplex Telegraphy 57:24 Lu par Tysto
The Telephone, Motograph, And Microphone 1:07:55 Lu par Heidi Preuss
The Phonograph 47:12 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
The Invention Of The Incandescent Lamp 51:21 Lu par J. M. Smallheer
Memories Of Menlo Park 52:50 Lu par Ralph Snelson
A World-Hunt For Filament Material 29:57 Lu par Melissa
Inventing A Complete System Of Lighting 58:09 Lu par Heidi Preuss
Introduction Of The Edison Electric Light 1:04:28 Lu par Nelly (林子)
The First Edison Central Station 56:06 Lu par Anthony Wilson
Other Early Stations -- the Meter 59:08 Lu par Mitchell L Leopard
The Electric Railway 48:31 Lu par Heidi Preuss
Magnetic Ore Milling Work 45:44 Lu par William Kevin Manire
Edison Portland Cement 35:44 Lu par Melissa
Motion Pictures 52:48 Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
The Development Of The Edison Storage Battery 39:39 Lu par Heidi Preuss
Miscellaneous Inventions 36:57 Lu par Kalynda
Edison's Method In Inventing 47:30 Lu par Kalynda
The Laboratory At Orange And The Staff 45:24 Lu par Alec Daitsman
Edison In Commerce And Manufacture 44:02 Lu par Heidi Preuss
The Value Of Edison's Inventions To The World 52:10 Lu par Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
The Black Flag 1:10:14 Lu par Mitchell L Leopard
The Social Side Of Edison 1:10:15 Lu par Pamnache
Appendix: Introduction 2:17 Lu par Melissa
Appendix I. The Stock Printer 14:45 Lu par Melissa
Appendix II. The Quadruplex And Phonoplex 32:14 Lu par Anna-Maria Viola
Appendix III. Automatic Telegraphy 18:51 Lu par Heidi Preuss
Appendix IV. Wireless Telegraphy 30:24 Lu par Heidi Preuss
Appendix V. The Electromotograph 9:22 Lu par Anna Simon
Appendix VI. The Telephone 10:00 Lu par Esther
Appendix VII. Edison's Tasimeter 5:16 Lu par Justin S Barrett
Appendix VIII. The Edison Phonograph 14:57 Lu par Esther
Appendix IX. The Incandescent Lamp 13:00 Lu par Jerome Lawsen
Appendix X. Edison's Dynamo Work 32:04 Lu par Melissa
Appendix XI. The Edison Feeder System 15:57 Lu par Melissa
Appendix XII. The Three-Wire System 10:24 Lu par Esther
Appendix XIII. Edison's Electric Railway 17:46 Lu par Heidi Preuss
Appendix XIV. Train Telegraphy 5:59 Lu par Esther
Appendix XV. Kinetograph And Projecting Kinetoscope 8:38 Lu par Jerome Lawsen
Appendix XVI. Edison's Ore-Milling Inventions 18:14 Lu par Melissa
Appendix XVII. The Long Cement Kiln 9:43 Lu par Esther
Appendix XVIII. Edison's New Storage Battery 15:33 Lu par Jerome Lawsen
Appendix XIX. Edison's Poured Cement House 9:26 Lu par Esther
Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 1 1:05:26 Lu par Justin S Barrett
Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 2 47:56 Lu par Esther
Appendix: Foreign Patents 2:30 Lu par Justin S Barrett

Critiques

Edison


(5 stars)

what a fantastic story brought his life to life I have been to the Edison ford museum it now Bringks it all to life


(3.5 stars)

the lady reading chapter 15 is terrible. but other than that great book

Essential reading


(5 stars)

All of our lives have been touched by this amazing, driven man. The book is particularly interesting to the engineering mind.


(1 stars)

el volumen está muy bajo the volume is too low

The whole world should have a day commemorating Inventors.


(5 stars)

Edison scum


(3 stars)

I have to agree with one of the reviewers. Edison was not a good person at all. Almost everything that he claimed credit for was someone else’s work (mostly Tesla’s). I cannot believe that he is, to this day, getting away with this and that greater masses are ignorant about this thief’s wrong doings.

Edison was a dick


(1 stars)

The man was a ruthless, narcissistic ego-maniac with no scruples whatsoever, and made his name on the works of his betters. Tesla was always in all ways the better man and mind.