Hot Off the Presses: Volume 7 - Losses and Loyalties
April 1883-December 1884

Get it now! Volume 7 includes 352 annotated documents with about 180 individual drawings, a detailed time line, appendices, and expansive bibliography.  During this time, Edison was busy overseeing the construction of central station plants in towns and cities across the United States, Europe and South America.  Edison also had to deal with the tragic loss of his first wife, Mary, and this volume provides the first detailed account of her death.

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