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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 2s. net.
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BROWN, S. Thomas Alva Edison . Nature 97, 158 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097158a0
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