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...Edison, by Matthew Josephson. An effective portrait of the tobacco-chewing Ohioan who became the U.S.'s most flamboyant inventor, partly by being one of its best promoters...
...Edison, by Matthew Josephson. A well-done portrait of the tobacco-chewing Ohioan, who became the U.S.'s most flamboyant inventor partly by being one of its best promoters...
Nevertheless, the friendly reviewer pulls the usual journalistic blooper, when he says that although deafened, Edison "could hear distinctly the click and clatter of telegraph keys." This would qualify him for supernormal hearing, because a simple telegraph set consists of key and sounder, the former to send on and the latter to receive from...
...review of the book Edison, by Matthew Josephson, in your Nov. 2 issue is commendably excellent. As a "ham" in a small Western Union office in the 1890s here in the sphenoid tip of the Old Dominion, I coincidentally graduated from high school in 1899 and started looping about over the U.S. and Canada as a "boomer," or tramp telegrapher. When I hit Detroit, Tom Edison was in New York working the first Albany circuit at 195 Broadway. When I hit 195 Broadway, I occasionally sat in on the first Albany circuit, and although Tom had sold his quadruplex patent...
...Edison, by Matthew Josephson. A brisk biography of the man who became a world symbol of Yankee ingenuity...