American inventions and inventors . nized the Thomson-Houston Elec-tric Company, and has pa-tented nearly two hundredinventions relating to electriclighting and other applica-tions of electricity. He wasalso the inventor of the sys-tem of electric welding. Among the great Ameri-can inventors in electricalscience is Thomas Alva Edi-son. He was an Ohio boywhose Scotch mother taughthim to read. When he wastwelve years old he was anewsboy on the Grand TrunkRailroad. Here he acquiredthe habit of reading. He studied chemistry and conductedchemical experiments on the train. He learned to set type,and
American inventions and inventors . nized the Thomson-Houston Elec-tric Company, and has pa-tented nearly two hundredinventions relating to electriclighting and other applica-tions of electricity. He wasalso the inventor of the sys-tem of electric welding. Among the great Ameri-can inventors in electricalscience is Thomas Alva Edi-son. He was an Ohio boywhose Scotch mother taughthim to read. When he wastwelve years old he was anewsboy on the Grand TrunkRailroad. Here he acquiredthe habit of reading. He studied chemistry and conductedchemical experiments on the train. He learned to set type,and edited and printed a newspaper in the baggage car. Hewas constantly noticing the telegraph stations along the road,and he soon began to study electricity. One day the little child of a station master was playingon the track just as a freight car was moving down towardhim. Almost as swift as lightning itself young Edisondashed out, stepped in front of the coming car, and at therisk of his own life snatched the child from danger. In. EDISONS HEROIC ACT. LIGHT—ELECTRIC LIGHTING. 8/ gratitude the station master, knowing the boys interest inthe telegraph, taught him how to use a machine. After thathe acquired great skill in this art and operated in many sec-tions of the country, perfecting himself in the subject. For over twenty years he has had a large establishment,with an immense workshop and many mechanics, at MenloPark, N. J., where he has devoted his whole attention to in-venting. He has perfected his system of duplex telegraphyand invented the carbon telephone-transmitter, the phono-graph, the platinum burner, and the carbon burner for theincandescent light. He has patented very many inventions,and his system of electric lighting for houses is now in gen-eral use. Edisons whole life is an interesting study foryoung people. At the present time the two methods of lighting by elec-tricity are the arc light and the incandescent light. The arclight is used for lighting large bu
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