Boy Inventors Radio Telephone

Richard Bonner, Illustrations By Charles L. Wrenn, Blank Endpapers FOX, Wear & Former Owner Names, B/W Glossy Frontispiece with Smudge in Margin: The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone in RARE Color DustJacket of Modernistic Mobile Looking Vehicle with Colored Flags, Series #6 Determination to Adopt, Adapt & Improve the Lastest Means of Communication Gave Fresh Impulse to Their Ambition. Hurst & Co, NY Publ 1915
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HBDJ, 1ST EDITION , 1915, Post Text Lists Thru this Title, Hardcover. Book Condition: GOOD+. Dust Jacket Condition: FAIR. USED Dust Jacket, there are a few nicks And tears around the dj edge. mostly it affects border/ but gets into illustratIon about a half inch at top corner. Other than that all the illustration and title are present. On the spine a little of the woRds 'the boy' is missing from the top and part of the publishing company is missing at the bottom edge.DJ Light Soil Wear, Beige red & Black Cloth Cvr of 2 boys Listening Ham Radio & Looking Out Window Cvr light Rub, Wear, previous owners name is wrItten on first end page In ink and pencil. Interior Nice Tight Clean light FOX, Wear, 303 pgs + ADS end with DReadnought boys in Home Waters First Edition Fair Hard Cover

[SW: By Richard Bonner, Boy Inventors Series]

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Richard Bonner: The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone (Large Print Edition) BiblioBazaar 2008-08-18 ISBN: 0554247755
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Miller, Francis Trevelyan (re: Thomas A. Edison): THOMAS A. EDISON - Benefactor of Mankind, Philadelphia John C. Winston 1931
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320 pp. Red cloth decorated with gilt on the front panel and spine. Illustrated with black and white plates and line drawings. Some wear on the corners; hinges tight; gutters intact; no interior markings; no dustjacket. The Chapters are: CHAPTER ONE: A Tale of Two Worlds - Before and After Edison: Epoch-making Achievements of the World's Greatest Benefactor; The World as Edison Found It; The World as Edison Left It; What Edison Means in Everyday Life; Discoveries and Inventions that Created Great Industries. CHAPTER TWO: The Great Romance - Foundations of Genius: Edison said Genius is One Per Cent Inspiration and Ninety-nine Per Cent Perspiration; How His Career Began; The Hardy Stock behind Him; Edison Pioneer Signs Continental Currency. CHAPTER THREE: Edison Pioneers on the Trails in Canada: Here in the Land of Evangeline Thomas A. Edison's Father was Born in 1804; Samuel Edison in Canadian Rebellion; The Perilous Trek Through the Wilderness; Across the Border. CHAPTER FOUR: The Red Brick House in the Canal Village - A New World Shrine: The Great Event of February 11 1847; Thomas Alva Edison Is Born; The Gold Rush to California; Watching the Covered Wagons Go By; First Impressions of a Great World Beyond; Following the Towpath; Adventures and Narrow Escapes; Childhood Days in Milan Ohio. CHAPTER FIVE: Boyhood Days of Thomas Edison on American Frontier: The New Home in Port Huron Michigan; Tower of Babel; The Young Market Gardener; First Edison Laboratory in Mother's Cellar. CHAPTER SIX: School Days - Education of Young Edison by His School-Teacher Mother: First and Only Attempt to Send the Boy to School; The Books Young Edison Read; Laying Solid Foundations for the Future; Thomas Edison's Tribute to His Mother. CHAPTER SEVEN: He Starts His Great Career - Twelve Years of Age: Newsboy on a Railroad Train; The Laboratory in the Baggage Car; A Wild Night Ride on the Runaway Engine; The First Big Exciting Moment in Edison's Life. CHAPTER EIGHT: His Adventures in Tragic Days of the Civil War: The News Merchant Becomes a Publisher and Editor; The World's First Traveling Newspaper Plant; Transcript of Edison's Weekly Herald. CHAPTER NINE: The Courage of Youth - On the Road to Success: How a Rescue Changed the Course of Edison's Life; From Train Newsboy and Printer to Telegraph Operator; Inventive Genius Early Displayed; Making a Clock Do Duty as Operator. CHAPTER TEN: Exploring the Middle West - In Search of Opportunity: Five Years of Wandering; The Roving Telegrapher; Exciting Experiences in Cincinnati; Working His Way from Detroit to New Orleans. CHAPTER ELEVEN: Eastward Ho! - The Strike for Fame and Fortune: Four Days Snow-bound on the Train to the East; The Blizzard of 1868; First Job in Boston; First Patented Invention of Thomas Edison; Vote-recording Machine which was Not Wanted in Washington; Edison Resolves Never to Invent Anything That the People Do Not Want. CHAPTER TWELVE: The Rise from Poverty to Independence: First Contact with New York; Penniless; The Emergency That Gave Edison His Opportunity; Black Friday; Improving the Stock Ticker; Edison's Universal Printer; First Check40,000 Stuns Edison. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Young Inventor on Threshold of Great Discoveries: The Invention Shop in Newark; The Automatic Telegraph; Multiplex Telegraph Systems; Working with Sholes in Development of First Typewriters; Marriage with Mary Stillwell; First Voyage to Europe; Demonstrating the Automatic Telegraph System in England; Jay Gould Makes an Offer; The4,000,000 Deal. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Creating a New Era in Human Life - The Telephone: The Laboratory in Menlo Park; The Race for Telephone Communication; Edison First to File Caveat in Patent Office; Bell First to Obtain Patent on Completed Model; Many Inventors Working on Problem; The Great Telephone War; Edison Invents Transmitter Making Telephone Practical; How Hello Originated. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: A Modern Miracle Amazes the World - The Talking Machine: How the Phonograph Was Invented; Recording Sound on Tin Foil; The Marvel of the Day: A Machine that Talked; Gladstone Makes First British Record; All Europe Enthralled by New American Invention; Kairser Wilhelm Makes Record on Fortitude in Pain. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Wizard of Menlo Park Lights the World: The Seach for Electric Light; Edison Starts Where Pioneers Left Off; Thousands of Tests Made in Laboratory at Menlo Park by Edison and His Valiant Little Army; Historic Date October 21 1879; First Successful Incandescent Electric Light; First New Year's Eve Celebration by Electric Light; The World Search for a Filament. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The New Pioneer behind Human Progress - The Electrical Age: Call the Roll of Pioneers in Electrical Research; Taking Up Work Where Faraday Left Off; The Twelve Million Dollar Brain; The Starting of an Enormous Industry; Story of First Large Power House; The Beginning of Electric Railways. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Whole World Passes Before Your Eyes: Edisons on Tour of Triumph in Europe; New Fields of Conquest; The Problem of Making Pictures Move; Edison's First Tests; Utilizing the Eastman Roll Film; The First Motion-picture Studio at West Orange; Edison the Father of the Motion-picture Industry. CHAPTER NINETEEN: Flashing the Human Voice Around the World - The Radio: Edison the Prospero of Science; Etheric Force Discovered by Edison Long Before Radio; The Edison Effect on Which Every Radio Tube is Based; Patents Sold to Marconi; The Microphone; The Storage Battery; Edison's Flying Machine; The Helicopter. CHAPTER TWENTY: Great Inventor Rising to the Height of His Power: Magnetic Ore Separators; Crushing Mountains in Giant Rolls; New Mining Town in New Jersey; A2,000,000 Loss; Rehabilitating a Lost Fortune; Building a Huge Cement Industry; Cheap Homes for People. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: World War - Edison's Service to His Country: Secretary of Navy Daniels Ask Edison's Aid; Naval Consulting Board; Inventor's Secret Missions on Warships; Underwater Searchlight; Hydrogen Detector for Submarines; After the War; In Peace Service; The Great Triumvirate, Edison, Ford and Firestone; Experiments with Goldenrod to Produce Rubber; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: Days and Night with Edison in His Laboratory: The Splendid Group of Men that Workd with Edison; Midnight Lunch; Song and Story; Incidents of Great Days with a Great Leader; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: The Home Life of Edison: An Intimate View of Glenmont; With Edison in His World of Books; Mrs Edison Tells of the Inventor's Characteristics; Forty-five Years as the Wife of Genius. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: The Grand Old Man Makes His Last Great Discovery: Partiarch of Invention at End of Career; His Last Message - Be Courageous; The Passing of Thomas A. Edison; President Hoover's Proclamation; Tribute by an Associate Arthur J. Palmer; Called Humanity's Friend. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: Edison's Views of Life - His Philosophy and Religion: Reason in His Religion; A Believer in Infinite Intelligence and Infinite Laws; Scientific Mind Sets Up a Mathematical Universe; He Went Away Expecting Light not Darkness. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: A Visit to the Famous Edison Museum: Henry Ford Re-creates an American Village of Other Days; The Real Edison Valhalla; The President and Edison at Historic Shrine; The Voice of Edison Still Speaks. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: Achievements of Thomas Edison - What the Edison Pioneers Gave to the World: Wealth Created by Edison with His Pioneers Nearly26,000,000,000; The Men Who Stood Behind the Inventor in His Life Work; Inventory of Industries Directly Founded Upon or Affected by Inventions of Thomas A. Edison; Estimates by Statisticians. APPENDIX: Edison Scholarship Award: Official Examinations in National Contests; Standard Tests of General Information and Intelligence. Followed by an Index. First Edition Hard Cover 8vo

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Bonner, Richard Illustrated by Charles L. Wrenn: The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone, 1915 NY Hurst & Co.

Hardcover VG-/NONE Edition: First Edition Corners bumped. A few stains on the rear cover; otherwise a clean, tight copy. ; Tan cloth covered boards with red lettering and red/black/white illustration. Frontis and 3 B&W illustrations. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 303 pages

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