Edison, His Life and Inventions: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Edison, His Life and Inventions, credited to Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of Edison, His Life and Inventions, by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin. A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, "It is designed in these pages to bring the reader face to face with Edison; to glance at an interesting childhood and a youthful period marked by a capacity for doing things, and by an insatiable thirst for knowledge; then to accompany him into the great creative stretch of forty years, during which he has done so much. This book shows him plunged deeply into work for which he has always had an incredible capacity, reveals the exercise of his unsurpassed inventive ability, his keen reasoning powers, his tenacious memory, his fertility of resource; follows him through a series of innumerable experiments, conducted methodically, reaching out like rays of search-light into all the regions of science and nature, and finally exhibits him emerging triumphantly from countless difficulties bearing with him in new arts the fruits of victorious struggle." (Summary by Justin Barrett, with authors' quote taken from the work itself) Read by Librivox volunteers.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Edison, His Life and Inventions
• Author credits: Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 53
• Listed recording duration: 29:41:34

Catalogue topics

• biography
• science
• audio book

Opening tracks: first 24 of 53

1. 00 - Introduction — 5:39
2. 01 - The Age of Electricity — 13:42
3. 02 - Edison's Pedigree — 21:44
4. 03 - Boyhood At Port Huron, Michigan — 45:53
5. 04 - The Young Telegraph Operator — 30:02
6. 05 - Arduous Years In The Central West — 51:49
7. 06 - Work And Invention In Boston — 24:31
8. 07 - The Stock Ticker — 44:09
9. 08 - Automatic, Duplex, and Quadruplex Telegraphy — 57:25
10. 09 - The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone — 1:07:56
11. 10 - The Phonograph — 47:12
12. 11 - The Invention Of The Incandescent Lamp — 51:21
13. 12 - Memories Of Menlo Park — 52:51
14. 13 - A World Hunt for Filament Material — 29:58
15. 14 - A Complete System of Lighting — 58:10
16. 15 - Introduction Of The Edison Electric Light — 1:04:28
17. 16 - The First Edison Central Station — 56:07
18. 17 - Other Early Stations -- the Meter — 59:08
19. 18 - The Electric Railway — 48:32
20. 19 - Magentic Ore Milling Work — 45:45
21. 20 - Edison Portland Cement — 35:44
22. 21 - Motion Pictures — 52:48
23. 22 - The Development Of The Edison Storage Battery — 39:40
24. 23 - Miscellaneous Inventions — 36:57

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