Wizard Menlo Park Inventor THOMAS ALVA EDISON ~ 1877 Art Print Engraving RARE !

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THOMAS ALVA EDISON

Artist: unknown _________________ Engraver: A. H. Ritchie

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A HIGH QUALITY STEEL ENGRAVING BOOKPLATE FROM THE 1880'S!!

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AMONG the many ingenious men brought to public knowledge by electric art, no one has excited more genuine interest than Thomas Alva Edison, of Menlo Park, N. J. He was born at Milan, Ohio, February 11, 1847, of parents whose ancestors came from Holland. Going to the public schools until the age of fourteen, lie then began to sell newspapers upon the trains of the Grand Trunk Railway, and first used the telegraph to bulletin at the various stations ahead the features of the morning news, which in those war days were likely to be startling enough. An operator taught him how to telegraph; then, to perfect his knowledge, he and a companion erected a short line between their houses at their own expense, which was small, since young Edison made everything himself, instruments and all. Battery material was dear, and to save cost he betook himself to experiment. He had seen sparks emitted from a cat's back; he inserted a tomcat in the circuit, using the fore and hind feet as electrodes. The connections, after some resistance, having been duly made, he tried to start an induced current by rubbing the cat's back. But it would not work the line and was abandoned. The experiment illustrated the humor of the man. Then young Edison got some type and a press, set it up in the baggage car, and printed the " Grand Trunk Herald " every day on the express train. When this came to an end, he started a chemical laboratory, and experimented until lie set the car afire, when he and his laboratory were ignominiously bundled out. After that lie was employed as a railway telegraph operator, and then went to Cincinnati in the employment of the Western Onion Telegraph Company. It was here that his penchant for experimenting began to be so strongly manifested. The results were that he patented the duplex machine, by which two dispatches could be transmitted on the same wire at the same time. In 1872 the quadruplex system of telegraphy was got into shape by him, by which four messages can be sent simultaneously on one wire, two one way and two the other, and which is in daily use now. This was quickly followed by other very important inventions, the "Electro-Motograph," the "Edison Universal Printer," the " Electric Pen," the "Domestic Telegraph Call," the "Chemical Automatic Recording Telegraph," are only a few of the subjects to which he has applied his thoughts. Throe very important inventions of his are the "Carbon Telephone," the " Phonograph," and the " Electric Light." These with other patents now bring him in a, large revenue, and the Wistern Union Telegraph Company pay him a good yearly bonus for the simple refusal of the first right to buy any and all of his discoveries which relate to telegraphy. Some idea of Mr. Edison's prolific brain may be gathered from the number of his patents. Of these there have been issued to him since 1870 over two hundred. He has now one of the amplest laboratories and the finest array of assisting machinery to be found in connection with scientific inquiry. "His laboratory is a wonderful place. Down stairs are his office and unpacking room, where are hosts of books and steam engines and machinery, where the best workmen turn for him the delicate parts of iron and brass which are to be put together in his cunning constructions. Upstairs is the work-room. Plenty of windows give light and air and a pleasant view. Gearing from the engine can be attached anywhere needed. Telegraph wires run to New York and Washington, and a circuit of 3,000 miles can be secured, if necessary, to ascertain whether some designed improvement which works well enough in the laboratory, will cope with conditions of long out-door lines. Everywhere are the implements and evidences of his craft, batteries, insulated wires, gas jets innumerable, the gas being made on the premises, telegraph machines, telescopes, microscopes, spectroscopes, and the tables are crowded with parts of new models and fragments of old machines." Mr. Edison's tall form is somewhat bent with much stooping over his work, and his brown hair is streaked with gray. He wears no beard or mustache, and in rest would hardly be called a handsome man; but when he speaks, the face instantly speaks too, and the keen blue eyes, far apart, light up with quick and happy intelligence. Careless in matters of personal appearance, deaf enough to give him an abstracted look, fond of fun, quick and facile at caricature, abstemious and simple in Ins habits, happy only in his laboratory and his home near by, reckless of money when applied to his scientific needs, regarding time as the one precious thing, he is a man of such strong characteristics as make an indelible impress upon the world wherever he goes.

SIZE: Image size in inches is 3 1/2" x 4", overall page size is 6 1/2 " x 9 1/2".

CONDITION: Condition is good. Light age toning. Nothing on reverse.

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An engraving is an intaglio process of printing, with the design to be produced is cut below the surface of the plate (made of copper, steel or wood), and the incised lines are filled with ink that is then transferred to paper. The portraits on our currency are good examples of engraved images. A Photogravure is an intaglio process in which the plate is produced photographically. Please note: the terms used in our auctions for engraving, heliogravure, lithograph, line drawing, photogravure etc. are ALL images on paper.

THIS IS AN ACTUAL STEEL ENGRAVING FROM THE 1870's!

NOT A REPRODUCTION!

  • Original/Reproduction: Original Print
  • Print Type: Engraving
  • Subject: Figures & Portraits
  • Date of Creation: 1800-1899

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