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James Boswell's Life of Johnson has ensured that Samuel Johnson remains one of the most intriguing and loved of English literary figures. In it, we not only follow Johnson's rise to literary preeminence and his development of the Dictionary, but because the author and biographer were friends we get to relish conversations, jokes, and opinions. We learn the rough edges of Johnson's personality and gain insider insight into his complexities.

This is volume one of a two volume set. At the time of original publication in 1910 the publisher said: “Here is indeed the real Edison book. No single figure of our time has influenced more intimately our daily lives. Yet the full and authoritative story of Edison’s own life has never been written until now. In this book one may hear and see Edison. One of the authors is his counsel – both practically share Edison’s life. The entire manuscript has been read and revised by Edison himself. This is the personal story of Edison – his birth in Ohio, his boyhood in Michigan, his experience as a newsboy, and his work as a telegraph operator, winning his way upward. Edison’s establishment in Newark, the invention of the phonograph, and his removal to Menlo Park in 1876 lead to one of the most absorbing stories in the history of discovery – the invention of the incandescent lamp. This is told for the first time. We see days and nights spent developing storage batteries, the phonograph industry, application of Portland cement, moving pictures, etc. Not as an abstract genius, but as a man, Edison is made known and his personal human side is set before us.” Includes many portraits and illustrations.

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CHAPTER ITHE AGE OF ELECTRICITYTHE year 1847 marked a period of great territorial acquisition by the American people, with incalculable additions to their actual and potential wealth. By the rational compromise with England in the dispute over the Oregon region, President Polk had secured during 1846, for undisturbed settlement, three hundred thousand square miles of forest, fertile land, and fisheries, including the whole fair Columbia Valley. Our active "policy of the Pacific" dated from that hour. With swift and clinching succession came the melodramatic Mexican War, and February, 1848, saw another vast territory south of Oregon and west of the Rocky Mountains added by treaty to the United States. Thus in about eighteen months there had been pieced into the national domain for quick development and exploitation a region as large as the entire Union of Thirteen States at the close of the War of Independence. Moreover, within its boundaries was embraced all the great American gold-field, just on the eve of discovery, for Marshall had detected the shining particles in the mill-race at the foot of the Sierra Nevada nine days before Mexico signed away her rights in California and in all the vague, remote hinterland facing Cathayward.

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Thomas Alva Edison was a U. S. inventor and tradesman, who has been known as America's greatest inventor. He technologically advanced several mechanisms that exceedingly impelled life across the world, such as the phonograph, the feature film camera, and the lifelong, useful electric light bulb. Hailed as "The Wizard of Menlo Park", he was among the first inventors to use the ideologies of mass production and worldwide collaboration to the course of the invention, and for that reason, he is repeatedly attributed to the formation of the first industrial research laboratory. The contentious and expressive Frank L. Dyer, an American lawyer, executive, had a great sway on the organization of the developing American movie industry. A patent legal representative who also was Thomas Edison's private attorney, he and his associate W.H. Seeley involved in delayed conciliation and disagreement with the United States Patent Office due to the phrasing of Edison's first three film patents which in the long run led to the founding of vastly general petitions that gave the Edison organization the legal bases to follow the opposition in the new avenue, a procedure which the enterprise practiced dynamically. Redeploying materially to the Edison Manufacturing Company, from where he instructed both an internal patents staff and the expertise of conforming lawyers in metropolises around the nation, Dyer then succeeded William E. Gilmore as Vice-President and general manager for Edison and was a presiding director of the Motion Picture Patents Company. As its first leader, he tried to justify and dominate the movie industry and was President of the corresponding circulation organize the General Film Company. For Edison, Dyer seriously made bigger movie manufacture to intensify the trade’s promotion assignment and directly selected and certified all motion picture circulation and changed around the movie business again presenting a director or unit system.

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