Tag: children’s history book
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The Boy’s Life of Edison: Chapters 15 and 16
Beginning the Electric Light Business The close of the last two chapters found us attending the birth of an art that was then absolutely and entirely new—the art of electric lighting by incandescent lamps. It will now be interesting to take a brief glance at the way in which it was introduced to the world.…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison: Chapters 13 and 14
A New Light in the World In these modern times, an incandescent electric lamp is such an everyday affair as to be a familiar object even to a small child. But only a few years ago—a little over thirty—the man who proposed and invented it was derided in the newspapers, and called a mad-man and…
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Pilgrim Stories: Chapters 5 and 6
PILGRIMS audio THE next night the stars looked down upon a strange sight. On the shore of the sea near a large city, a group of Pilgrims waited for the ship which was to carry them to Holland. It grew very late. One by one the lights of the city went out, and all was…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison: Chapters 11 & 12
The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone It is well known that to Mr. Alexander Graham Bell belongs the credit for transmitting the articulate voice over an electric circuit by talking against a diaphragm placed in front of an electromagnet. But after Mr. Bell brought out the telephone Mr. Edison made some remarkable improvements. In the year…
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Pilgrim Stories chapter: Chapters 9 and 10
ON THE CANAL audio NEXT morning, the pretty blue and white dishes washed, the kettles scoured, and fresh white sand sprinkled on the kitchen floor, Patience took baby Love and went out on the doorstep to watch the boats on the canal. There were many of these boats passing to and fro. Some carried fuel…
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Pilgrim’s Stories: Chapters 3 & 4
Chapters 3 and 4 MEETING IN SECRET audio FOR a time all went well, but after a few months King James was told that the people of Scrooby were not going to Scrooby church. Everybody knew they were men and women who worshiped God, so they must have meetings somewhere. One Sabbath morning two strangers…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison: Chapters 9 & 10
From Poverty to Independence Edison came first to New York in 1868, with his early stock printer, which he tried unsuccessfully to sell. He went back to Boston, and, quite undismayed, got up a duplex telegraph. “Toward the end of my stay in Boston,” he says, “I obtained a loan of money, amounting to eight…
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Pilgrim’s Stories: Chapters 1 and 2
Chapters 1 and 2 AT SCROOBY INN IN the little village of Scrooby in England, three hundred years ago, stood a beautiful old house. It was the largest one in the village, and its moss-covered roof and great red chimneys rose high above the cottages about it. The house stood close to the street, but…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison
“The Boys’ Life of Edison” by Wm. H. Meadowcroft describes Thomas Edison’s early life, emphasizing his curiosity, hard work, and exploratory spirit that shaped him as an inventor.
