| CHAP. | | | Introduction | | I. | The Early Days of Electricity | | II. | Edison's Family | | III. | Edison's Early Boyhood | | IV. | The Young Newsboy | | V. | A Few Stories of Edison's Newsboy Days | | VI. | The Young Telegraph Operator | | VII. | Adventures of a Telegraph Operator | | VIII. | Work and Invention in Boston | | IX. | From Poverty to Independence | | X. | A Busy Young Inventor | | XI. | The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone | | XII. | Making a Machine Talk | | XIII. | A New Light in the World | | XIV. | Menlo Park | | XV. | Beginning the Electric Light Business | | XVI. | The First Edison Central Station | | XVII. | Edison's Electric Railway | | XVIII. | Grinding Mountains to Dust | | XIX. | Edison Makes Portland Cement | | XX. | Motion-Pictures | | XXI. | Edison Invents a New Storage Battery | | XXII. | Edison's Miscellaneous Inventions | | XXIII. | Edison's Method in Inventing | | XXIV. | Edison's Laboratory at Orange | | XXV. | Edison Himself | | XXVI. | Edison's New Phonograph | | XXVII. | Edison's Work During the War |
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