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Title
Author
# of Pages
Edison: A Biography
Matthew Josephson
511

Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments    (p. ix)

1. The Edisons    (p. 1)
2. Childhood and boyhood    (p. 13)
3. The wanderyears    (p. 41)
4. The free-lance inventor    (p. 59)
5. Pluck-and-luck Edison    (p. 72)
6. "A bloated eastern manufacturer"    (p. 84)
7. The inventor and the "Barons"    (p. 105)
8. Menlo Park    (p. 131)
9. The legend of the "Wizard"    (p. 156)
10. Toward the light of the world    (p. 175)
11. The break-through    (p. 205)
12. The Edison System    (p. 228)
13. Pearl Street    (p. 251)
14. "Science and dollars . . ."    (p. 268)
15. The middle years: second marriage    (p. 291)
16. The Edison laboratory, West Orange    (p. 313)
17. Formation of General Electric    (p. 339)
18. Breaking rocks    (p. 367)
19. Motion Pictures    (p. 380)
20. A stern chase: the storage battery    (p. 404)
21. Canonization    (p. 432)
22. Sunset, with electric illuminations    (p. 456)

Appendix: References to notes in text    (p. 487)
Index of Names and Subjects    (p. 501)

[This book also contains illustrations of various things.]