Thomas Alva Edison

Thomas Alva Edison is alive, very much so, and it is hoped that some measure of his vitality vibrates in these pages. To him, to his friends, and to former biographers especially Messrs. Dyer Martin, Francis A. Jones, W. K. L. A. Dickson, and two anonymous writers the author of this book acknowledges his indebtedness. A personality such as that of Edison lends itself to many presentments. To use a simile, it is a gem on which many facets may be cut. This biography of the Wizard, however, has one end in view to show Edison as a Great American. That his life is a splendid stimulus to every American boy and girl, to every American man and woman, is the writers belief, and to fling before the youth of the United States the heroic figure of America sgreatest inventor in its most clarion appeal is the aim and purpose of THE AUTHOR.
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