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THOMAS EDISON SIGNED THE BIOGRAPHY THE BOY’S LIFE OF EDISON

 

THOMAS A. EDISON (1847-1931).  Edison was perhaps the most important inventor in history.  By age twenty-two, he sold his first patent, a stock-ticker.  He invented over 1,000 items, among the best known being the light bulb, the phonograph, the storage battery and the film projector. 

 

SB. 367 pg. 1929. No place.  The Boy’s Life of Edison by William H. Meadowcroft.  The volume is signed Thos A Edison and co-signed “To Lynton J. Briggs with good wishes, Wm H Meadowcroft July 5, 1929” on the first endpaper.  The interior has photographs of a young Edison, an exhausted Edison after inventing the phonograph, etc.  It is bound in blue cloth and is in very fine condition.