Tag: american-history
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Great Stories for Little Americans: John Stark and the Abenaki Indians
John Stark was a famous general in the Revolution. But this story is not about the Revolution. It is about Stark before he became a soldier. When he was a young man, Stark went into the woods. His brother and two other young men were with him. They lived in a camp. It was far…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison: Chapters 5 & 6
Chapters 5 and 6 A Few Stories of Edison’s Newsboy Days The Grand Trunk Railroad machine shops at Port Huron had a great attraction for young Edison. The boy who was to have much to do with the evolution of modern electric locomotive in later years was fascinated with the mechanism of the steam locomotive.…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison: Chapter 27
Audio EDISON’S WORK DURING THE WAR With the shattering of the world’s peace by the great conflict which commenced on July 28, 1914, there came a universal disturbance of industrial conditions. The Edison industries were not exempt. Edison’s activities during the years of the war were of the same intensely vigorous and energetic nature so…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison Chapters 3 & 4
Chapters 3 and 4 Edison’s Early Boyhood It was when he was about seven years old that Edison’s parents moved to Port Huron, Michigan, and it was there, a few years later, that he began his active life by becoming a newsboy. With his mother he found study easy and pleasant. The quality of the…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison Chapters 1 & 2
Chapters 1 and 2 The Early Days of Electricity This is the life story of the greatest of inventors in the field of electricity. It is true that Thomas A. Edison has helped the progress of the world by many other inventions and discoveries quite outside of electricity, but it is in this field that…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: FRANKLIN’S WHISTLE.
FRANKLIN’S WHISTLE. When Franklin was an old man, he wrote a cu-ri-ous letter. In that letter he told a story. It was about some-thing that happened to him when he was a boy. Here is the story put into verses, so that you will re-member it better. Some day you can read the story as…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: FRANKLIN AND THE KITE.
When Franklin wanted to know whether the ants could talk or not, he asked the ants, and they told him. When he wanted to know some-thing else, he asked the sunshine about it, as you have read in another story. That is the way that Franklin came to know so many things. He knew how…
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CHAPTER VII. HOW A BOY BROUGHT THE ADMIRAL TO GRIEF.
Columbus kept sailing on from one island to another. Each new island he found would, he hoped, bring him nearer to Cathay and to the marble temples and golden palaces and splendid cities he was looking for. But the temples and palaces and cities did not appear. When the Admiral came to the coast of…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: FRANKLIN ASKS THE SUNSHINE SOMETHING.
One day Franklin was eating dinner at the house of a friend. The lady of the house, when she poured out the coffee, found that it was not hot. She said, “I am sorry that the coffee is cold. It is because the servant forgot to scour the coffee-pot. Coffee gets cold more quickly when…
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CHAPTER 6: WHAT COLUMBUS DISCOVERED
A little over three hundred years ago there was a Pope of Rome whose name was Gregory XIII. He was greatly interested in learning and science, and when the scholars and wise men of his day showed him that a mistake in reckoning time had long before been made he set about to make it…