Essays and notes based on meticulous research in a wide range of sources, many only recently available, provide a rich context for the documents.
Thomas McIlwraith ( later knighted ) , a prominent Queensland rancher and investor , became treasurer and premier of the colonial government in January 1879. He forcefully advocated internal settlement and railroad construction , and at ...
Letb the Cotton stay in the above solutions until I return.d Take boiled linseed oil boil it until it is about twice as thick then get sheets of various kinds biblous paper and soak say 6 or 8 hours in the solutions then hang them up in ...
Illustrated with hundreds of Edison’s drawings, these documents are further illuminated by meticulous research on a wide range of sources, including the most recently digitized newspapers and journals of the day.
... Lyman, 135 Howell, Wilson, 375, 388 How Success Is Won (Bolton), 457 Hubbard, Elbert, 273 Hughes, Charles Evans, 189, 191 Hughes, Charles T., 375, 38o, 409 Hughes, David Edward, 556-57 Hughes, Edward Everett (Mina's second husband), ...
This newest volume in the acclaimed Papers of Thomas A. Edison covers one year in the life of America's greatest inventor—1878. That year Edison, whom a New York newspaper in...
He was equally convinced that the generators he had seen and tested—wallace's, Siemens's, Gramme's, and others—represented a primitive stage of development. with typical cockiness, he set out more seriously than ever to make a ...
Gathers sketches, notebook entries, letters, articles, patent information, and financial papers from the beginning of Edison's career as an inventor
The Papers of Thomas A. Edison: The Making of an Inventor, February 1847-June 1874
This bold reassessment of Edison’s life and career answers this and many other important questions while telling the story of how he came upon his most famous inventions as a young man and spent the remainder of his long life trying to ...