Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I - The Age of Electricity -- Chapter II - Edison's Pedigree -- Chapter III - Boyhood at Port Huron, Michigan -- Chapter IV - The Young Telegraph Operator -- Chapter V - Arduous Years in the Central West -- Chapter VI - Work and Invention in Boston -- Chapter VII - The Stock Ticker -- Chapter VIII - Automatic, Duplex, and Quadruplex Telegraphy -- Chapter IX - The Telephone, Motograph, and Microphone -- Chapter X - The Phonograph -- Chapter XI - The Invention of the Incandescent Lamp -- Chapter XII - Memories of Menlo Park -- Chapter XIII - A World-Hunt for Filament Material -- Chapter XIV - Inventing a Complete System of Lighting -- Chapter XV - Introduction of the Edison Electric Light -- Chapter XVI - The First Edison Central Station -- Chapter XVII - Other Early Stations- The Meter -- Chapter XVIII - The Electric Railway -- Chapter XIX - Magnetic Ore Milling Work -- Chapter XX - Edison Portland Cement -- Chapter XXI - Motion Pictures -- Chapter XXII - The Development of the Edison Storage Battery -- Chapter XXIII - Miscellaneous Inventions -- Chapter XXIV - Edison's Method in Inventing -- Chapter XXV - The Laboratory at Orange and the Staff -- Chapter XXVI - Edison in Commerce and Manufacture -- Chapter XXVII - The Value of Edison's Inventions to the World -- Chapter XXVIII - The Black Flag -- Chapter XXIX - The Social Side of Edison -- Appendix -- List of United States Patents -- Endnotes.