Francis Arthur Jones
Published: 2015-07-01
Total Pages: 438
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Excerpt from Thomas Alva Edison, Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life In the preparation of this book the author has received, and here acknowledges, the invaluable cooperation of many persons who knew Mr. Edison in his younger days, and who cheerfully placed at his service the result of their acquaintance and association with the inventor. To the American Press generally the writer is indebted for much valued assistance, and especially grateful does he feel towards the following: to the Editor of the Electrical Review for permission to incorporate Edison's own account of the circumstances under which he erected the first power-house for the distribution of the electric light; to Mr. W. K. L. Dickson, the consulting electrician; to Mr. J. R. Randolph, private secretary to Mr. Edison, Mr. Frank L. Dyer, chief of the Legal Department, and the late Dr. Wangemann, phonographic expert, for much interesting "inside" information; and also to the Cassier Magazine Company, holders of the copyright, for courteous permission to use certain pictures and to quote from Dickson's "Life of Edison," now out of print. To the inventor himself the writer is grateful for all the time he spent away from his experimental laboratory to give, with his customary cheerfulness and good-nature, much of the personal history which is here recorded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.