Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . anygood. But hesucceeded inmaking theinstrumentwork, and sodelighted theTALKING BY TELEPHONE. managers ^nth his appearance that they made him superintendent of the company. He was soon famous as a successful inventor; but he was not sosuccessful in manufacturing these instruments and his other inventions,for which there was soon a large demand. It is said if he had an orderfor any of his inventions, and, after having made a part or all of them, heinvented an improvement, he woul
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . anygood. But hesucceeded inmaking theinstrumentwork, and sodelighted theTALKING BY TELEPHONE. managers ^nth his appearance that they made him superintendent of the company. He was soon famous as a successful inventor; but he was not sosuccessful in manufacturing these instruments and his other inventions,for which there was soon a large demand. It is said if he had an orderfor any of his inventions, and, after having made a part or all of them, heinvented an improvement, he would always add it, even though at his ownexpense. After a time he gave up the great factory at Newark, NewJersey, and freed himself of its cares for the sake of invention. Mr. Edisons chief interest has always been in the telegraph; itbegan when he was a lad selling papers on the Grand Trunk of the great privileges of his life was the gift of lessons in operatingthe telegraph from a man whose little child he had saved from being runover by a train. But even before this he had a small, home-made tele^. THOMAS A. EDISON. 99 grapli of small wire. The wire was wound with rags, while the boyishoperator tried in vain to supply the electricity by rubbing the cats was a clever, enterprising little fellow even then, and although hehad scarcely eight weeks of schooling altogether, he had a great thirstfor knowledge. He read books on chemistry, science, and in fact tookout almost all the important volumes in the Detroit public library beforehe was fifteen years old. At this age he lost his mother, who had given
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