Chapter XIV

A TALK WITH EDISON DRAMATIC 220
INCIDENTS IN HIS EARLY LIFE.

The Library 221

A Chemical Newsboy 223

Telegraphy 225

His Use of Money 227

Inventions 228

His Arrival at the Metropolis 231

Mental Concentration 232

Twenty Hours a Day 233

A Run for Breakfast 234

Not by accident and Not for Fun 235

“I like it—I hate it” 236

Doing One Thing Eighteen Hours is 237
the Secret

Possibilities in the Electrical 238
Field

Only Six Hundred Inventions 238

His Courtship and his Home 239