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ABSTRACT IN this life of Thomas Alva Edison, the author has given a very interesting description of the childhood, youth, and manhood of America's —one might almost say, the world's —greatest living inventor. We learn that, as a boy, Edison proved unsatisfactory under school routine, but was a great success under his mother's private tuition. He incessantly asked questions on and about everything, and insisted on an answer or wanted to know the reason “why.” He also showed, from the earliest records, that he was a keen thinker, worker, and planner on all work which interested him, but under “routine” of any kind he was a complete failure. _Thomas Alva Edison._ By F. Rolt-Wheeler. Pp. ix + 201. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1916.) Price 2_s_. net. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your institution Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access $199.00 per year only $3.90 per issue Learn more Buy this article * Purchase on SpringerLink * Instant access to full article PDF Buy now Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout ADDITIONAL ACCESS OPTIONS: * Log in * Learn about institutional subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact customer support Authors * S. G. BROWN View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE BROWN, S. _Thomas Alva Edison_ . _Nature_ 97, 158 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097158a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 20 April 1916 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/097158a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Copy to clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative

ABSTRACT IN this life of Thomas Alva Edison, the author has given a very interesting description of the childhood, youth, and manhood of America's —one might almost say, the


world's —greatest living inventor. We learn that, as a boy, Edison proved unsatisfactory under school routine, but was a great success under his mother's private tuition. He


incessantly asked questions on and about everything, and insisted on an answer or wanted to know the reason “why.” He also showed, from the earliest records, that he was a keen thinker,


worker, and planner on all work which interested him, but under “routine” of any kind he was a complete failure. _Thomas Alva Edison._ By F. Rolt-Wheeler. Pp. ix + 201. (New York: The


Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1916.) Price 2_s_. net. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via your


institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your institution Subscribe to this journal Receive 51 print issues and online access $199.00 per year only $3.90 per issue Learn more Buy this


article * Purchase on SpringerLink * Instant access to full article PDF Buy now Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout ADDITIONAL ACCESS OPTIONS: * Log in


* Learn about institutional subscriptions * Read our FAQs * Contact customer support Authors * S. G. BROWN View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google


Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE BROWN, S. _Thomas Alva Edison_ . _Nature_ 97, 158 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097158a0


Download citation * Issue Date: 20 April 1916 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/097158a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get


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