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ILLUSTRATIONS

• THOMAS ALVA EDISON . . . . . . . . . .Frontispiece
• MR. EDISON'S FATHER Facing p. . . . . . . . 12
• MR. EDISON'S MOTHER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
• EDISON AS A CHILD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
• THE OLD EDISON HOME AT MILAN, OHIO . . . . . . . . 22
• EDISON WHEN ABOUT FOURTEEN OR FIFTEEN YEARS
  OF AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
• FACSIMILE OF EDISON'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER . . . . . . 34
• FACSIMILE OF FIRST ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
  ADVERTISEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
• TROUBLE ON THE QUAD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158
• EDISON AND HIS TIN-FOIL PHONOGRAPH—1878 . . . . .210
• MR. EDISON AT THE CLOSE OF FIVE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF
  CONTINUED WORE IN PERFECTING THE EARLY WAX-
  CYLINDER TYPE OF PHONOGRAPH—JUNE 16, 1888. . . . 218
• THE ASTRONOMICAL PARTY AT RAWLINS, WYOMING, IN
  JULY, 1878. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
• EDISON IN HIS LIBRARY, LOOKING AT THE RECORDER
  OF A PHONOGRAPH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
• MR. EDISON AND GROUP OF HIS ASSISTANTS IN
  LABORATORY AT MENLO PARK, NEW JERSEY. . . . . . . 270
• EDISON AND HIS PRINCIPAL ASSISTANTS AT MENLO
  PARK—1878. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
• THE EDISON ELECTRIC RAILWAY AT MENLO PARK—1880. .454
• EDISON IN THE CAB OF HIS ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE AT
  MENLO PARK—1882. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .462