The Edisons -- Childhood and boyhood -- The wanderyears -- The free-lance inventor -- Pluck-and-luck Edison -- "A bloated eastern manufacturer" -- The inventor and the "Barons" -- Menlo Park -- The legend of the "Wizard" -- Toward the light of the world -- The break-through -- The Edison system -- Pearl Street -- "Science and dollars ..." -- The middle years: second marriage -- The Edison laboratory, West Orange -- Formation of General Electric -- Breaking rocks -- Motion pictures -- A stern chase: the storage battery -- Canonization -- Sunset, with electric illuminations.
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