The third volume of this widely acclaimed series reveals the breath-taking intensity, intellectual acumen, and vast self-confidence of twenty-nine-year-old Thomas Edison.
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 ...
The Papers of Thomas A. Edison
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 ...
Essays and notes based on meticulous research in a wide range of sources, many only recently available, provide a rich context for the documents.
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.
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...
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
The eighth volume of the series, New Beginnings includes 358 documents (chosen from among thousands) that are the most revealing and representative of Edison's work, life, and place in American culture in these years.
This invention ultimately gave Edison a world-wide reputation—and the nickname "the wizard of Menlo Park."
The second volume of The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, which covers the inventor's life from the end of June 1873 to the end of March 1876, reveals a remarkable diversity of activities and interests.