[Illustration: EDISON AT WORK IN ONE OF THE CHEMICAL ROOMS AT THE ORANGE LABORATORY] I. The Early Days of Electricity............ 1 II. Edison's Family.......................... 5 III. Edison's Early Boyhood................... 15 IV. The Young Newsboy........................ 21 V. A Few Stories of Edison's Newsboy Days... 32 VI. The Young Telegraph Operator............. 41 VII. Adventures of a Telegraph Operator....... 49 VIII. Work and Invention in Boston............. 75 IX. From Poverty to Independence............. 88 X. A Busy Young Inventor.................... 101 XI. The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone. 117 XII. Making a Machine Talk.......…
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