. The New England magazine . are large—just in pro-portion to the extent and scope of its are not merely benefits to the Government,but they are benefits to the citizens and subjectsof all nations and of all states. A list of five hundred patents and morethan three hundred pending applicationsfor patents comprises, according to a re-cent authority, only a part of the inven-tions of Thomas A. Edison. Those whohave been associated with the wizard sonal element in Edisons success. Thoughhis schooling ended after a two monthsterm, Edison has always been an insati-able student. At th
. The New England magazine . are large—just in pro-portion to the extent and scope of its are not merely benefits to the Government,but they are benefits to the citizens and subjectsof all nations and of all states. A list of five hundred patents and morethan three hundred pending applicationsfor patents comprises, according to a re-cent authority, only a part of the inven-tions of Thomas A. Edison. Those whohave been associated with the wizard sonal element in Edisons success. Thoughhis schooling ended after a two monthsterm, Edison has always been an insati-able student. At the hearing of the argu-ments in an important suit against theEdison Company, at Pittsburgh, some-thing more than a year ago, it was ob-served that Edison, who had travelledfrom his home in New Jersey to be , spent little time in court, preferring tokeep his room and the company of a trunkfull of books, which he had carried withhim. And this zeal for study is habitual. 186 THE LATER HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY IN Elihu Thomson. Unlike many school-taught men, Edisonis not satisfied to stop with the end of thedays lesson. I only go a little fartherthan some of the others, he once that little farther is a vast dis-tance. In the industry of electric hght-ing by incandescence it meant all theway from a state of mere experiment to apractical and economical system of elec-tric light distribution. And it involvedimprovements in the dynamo, in meansfor subdividing the light, in exhaust ap-paratus, in the filament to be white- heated, and in every minutest detail andevery broadest combination; and it in-volved also the expenditure of over$2,000,000 in money. Especially exceptional are Edisonspowers of observation, quick conception,and selection. Being always by natureand by his responsibilities in the creativestate of mind, his observing powers arekept in constant play, while his exhaust-less knowledge of the needs of his artand of the aptitudes of contributory arts
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