Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . posite electric pen, for multiplying copies of letters or drawings, is made upof a tube-shaped pen in which a needle, driven by electricity, works in amotion like that of a sewing-machine needle, and pricks the lines drawnwith it, so that the sheet may be afterward inked and used in a press,when the ink, passing through the tiny holes, leaves a finely-dottedtracing like the original on another sheet. But of all Mr. Edisons inventions, there are probably none so wo
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . posite electric pen, for multiplying copies of letters or drawings, is made upof a tube-shaped pen in which a needle, driven by electricity, works in amotion like that of a sewing-machine needle, and pricks the lines drawnwith it, so that the sheet may be afterward inked and used in a press,when the ink, passing through the tiny holes, leaves a finely-dottedtracing like the original on another sheet. But of all Mr. Edisons inventions, there are probably none so won-derful and of so great fame as the telephone and the phonograph. Mr. Edison was born at Milan, Ohio, February ii, 1847. QUESTIONS. What does Mr. Edisons life teach you ? How did he first becomeknown in New York ? Who gave him lessons in - operating the telegraph,and how did he come to do it ? DescritLC his thirst for knowledge ? Wheredid he make experiments in chemistry? What happened to the car?What famous instruments has he invented ? Where and when was he bom ? THE GEEAT COEFEDEEATE OOMMAITOER. N old fort near where Uncle Frank lived was a place ofresort, and recalled the stirring times of the Revolu-tion. One day when he and the young folks werevisiting this place he began to tell them of the war ofIndependence. Then he passed to the Civil War,and, as they all sat down on the warm ground to-gether, he said, I am going to tell you to-day of thegreat Confederate was Robert B. Lee, was it not ? asked , said Uncle Frank, and he was a remarkable man. He gradu-ated from our Military Academy at West Point, on the Hudson, where hestood at the head of his class. He finished there when twenty years oldand was appointed lieutenant in a corps of engineers. For several years his work was establishing boundary lines and im-proving harbors and fortresses in various parts of the country, and whenthe Mexican War broke out he was made captain of the eng
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