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Edison, His Life and Inventions — 53 episodes

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Title
1

Introduction

2

The Age Of Electricity

3

Edison's Pedigree

4

Boyhood At Port Huron, Michigan

5

The Young Telegraph Operator

6

Arduous Years In The Central West

7

Work And Invention In Boston

8

The Stock Ticker

9

Automatic, Duplex, And Quadruplex Telegraphy

10

The Telephone, Motograph, And Microphone

11

The Phonograph

12

The Invention Of The Incandescent Lamp

13

Memories Of Menlo Park

14

A World-Hunt For Filament Material

15

Inventing A Complete System Of Lighting

16

Introduction Of The Edison Electric Light

17

The First Edison Central Station

18

Other Early Stations -- the Meter

19

The Electric Railway

20

Magnetic Ore Milling Work

21

Edison Portland Cement

22

Motion Pictures

23

The Development Of The Edison Storage Battery

24

Miscellaneous Inventions

25

Edison's Method In Inventing

26

The Laboratory At Orange And The Staff

27

Edison In Commerce And Manufacture

28

The Value Of Edison's Inventions To The World

29

The Black Flag

30

The Social Side Of Edison

31

Appendix: Introduction

32

Appendix I. The Stock Printer

33

Appendix II. The Quadruplex And Phonoplex

34

Appendix III. Automatic Telegraphy

35

Appendix IV. Wireless Telegraphy

36

Appendix V. The Electromotograph

37

Appendix VI. The Telephone

38

Appendix VII. Edison's Tasimeter

39

Appendix VIII. The Edison Phonograph

40

Appendix IX. The Incandescent Lamp

41

Appendix X. Edison's Dynamo Work

42

Appendix XI. The Edison Feeder System

43

Appendix XII. The Three-Wire System

44

Appendix XIII. Edison's Electric Railway

45

Appendix XIV. Train Telegraphy

46

Appendix XV. Kinetograph And Projecting Kinetoscope

47

Appendix XVI. Edison's Ore-Milling Inventions

48

Appendix XVII. The Long Cement Kiln

49

Appendix XVIII. Edison's New Storage Battery

50

Appendix XIX. Edison's Poured Cement House

51

Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 1

52

Appendix: List Of United States Patents, part 2

53

Appendix: Foreign Patents