Tag: children’s history book
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The Boy’s Life of Edison: Chapters 25 & 26
Audio EDISON HIMSELF Let us turn from what Edison has done to what Edison is. It is worth while to know “the man behind the guns.” Who and what is the personal Edison? Certainly there must be tremendous force in a personality which has been one of the most potent factors in bringing into existence…
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Pilgrim Stories: Chapters 17and 18
PREPARING FOR THE JOURNEY audio THAT spring brought very busy days to the Pilgrims in Leiden. Those who were going to America had many things to prepare, and those who stayed behind were glad to help them get ready. They must have plenty of cloth made, for there would be no time to weave more until…
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Pilgrim Stories: Chapters 15 and 16
A PERPLEXING PROBLEM audio WHEN they first came to Holland, everything seemed strange to the English children. The gay-colored houses with their floors of blue tile, their queer little fireplaces, and their steep roofs, were very different from the homes they had left in England. They had never seen wooden shoes such as the Dutch children…
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Pilgrim Stories: Chapters 13 and 14
FROM AMSTERDAM TO LEIDEN audio A FEW miles away from Amsterdam is the beautiful city of Leiden, with its many water-streets, fine schools, and great woolen and linen mills. For many reasons this city seemed to the Pilgrims a better place than Amsterdam to make their homes. So one spring morning found a little fleet…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison: Chapters 23 & 24
Audio EDISON’S METHOD IN INVENTING If one were allowed only two words with which to describe Edison it is doubtful whether a close examination of the entire dictionary would disclose any others more suitable than “experimenter-inventor.” These would express the overruling characteristics of his eventful career. His life as child, boy, and man has revealed…
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Pilgrim Stories: Chapters 11 and 12
A LITTLE MILK PEDDLER IN a cottage near the Pilgrims lived Mevrow van Ness and her three children. Karl was twelve years old and did not like being called a child. Had he not been “mother’s right-hand man” all these long weeks while his father was away in his fishing boat? And did he not peddle…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison: Chapters 21 & 22
Audio EDISON INVENTS A NEW STORAGE BATTERY Many an invention has been made as the result of some happy thought or inspiration, but most inventions are made by men working along certain lines, who set out to accomplish a desired result. It is rarely, however, that man starts out deliberately, as Edison did, to invent…
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Pilgrim Stories chapter: Chapters 7 and 8
IN HOLLAND audio AT last the ship bearing the rest of the Pilgrims reached Holland. The captain had told them that soon they would land in Amsterdam. All were upon the deck eager to catch the first glimpse of the city which was to be their home. “If it were not for this fog, I…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison: Chapters 19 & 20
Audio EDISON MAKES PORTLAND CEMENT Long before Edison ever thought of going into the manufacture of cement he had very pronounced opinions of its value for building purposes. More than twenty-five years ago, during a discussion on ancient buildings, he remarked: “Wood will rot, stone will chip and crumble, bricks disintegrate, but a cement and…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison: Chapters 17 & 18
Audio EDISON’S ELECTRIC RAILWAY It is quite likely that many of our young readers have never seen a horse-car. This is not strange, for in a little over twenty years the victorious trolley has displaced the old-time street-cars drawn by one or two horses. Indeed, a horse-car is quite a curiosity in these modern days,…