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Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
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 volunteers. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the catalog page for this recording. For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit .org. Download M4B part 1 (136MB) Download M4B part 2 (142MB) Download M4B part 3 (143MB) Download M4B part 4 (123MB) Download M4B part 5 (143MB) Download M4B part 6 (135MB)
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“My partner overheard me listening and ended up sitting down with me for the rest of it. We're both still talking about it. That's not nothing.”
“I've been listening during my evening walks and Edison, His Life and Inventions has been the highlight of my week honestly. There's a section in the middle where it all just comes together — gave me chills.”
“I've been listening during my evening walks and Edison, His Life and Inventions has been the highlight of my week honestly. There's a section in the middle where it all just comes together — gave me chills.”
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