Edison’s Published Articles and Select Interviews

[1868]

Editorial Notice. Telegrapher 4 (11 Jan. 1868): 163. 

Editorial Notice. Telegrapher 4 (4 Apr. 1868): 258. 

"Edison's Double Transmitter." Telegrapher 4 (11 Apr. 1868): 265. 

"The Induction Relay: To the Editor." Telegrapher 4 (25 Apr. 1868): 282. 

"Edison's Combination Repeater." Telegrapher 4 (9 May 1868): 298. 

"Automatic Telegraphing" [by M. F. Adams]. Journal of the Telegraph 1 (1 June 1868): 3. 

"To the Editor." Telegrapher 4 (2 June 1868): 334. 

"Self-Adjusting Relays." Telegrapher 4 (8 Aug. 1868): 405. 

"The Manufacture of Electrical Apparatus in Boston." Telegrapher 4 (15 Aug. 1868): 413–14. 

"American Compound Telegraph Wire." Telegrapher 5 (17 Oct. 1868): 61. 

[1869]

Editorial Notice. Telegrapher 5 (30 Jan. 1869): 183. 

"A New Double Transmitter" [editorial notice]. Telegrapher 5 (17 Apr. 1869): 272. 

“Pope, Edison & Co. Advertisement.” Telegrapher 6 (2 Oct. 1869): 45.

"Queries: To the Editor." Telegrapher 6 (16 Oct. 1869): 58. 

"Edison's Button Repeater." In Frank L. Pope. Modern Practice of the Electric Telegraph. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1869, pp.107–8. 

[1874]

[Edison's quadruplex telegraph.] Operator (15 July 1874): 5. 

"Duplex Telegraphy." Part 1 of 3. Operator (1 Sept. 1, 1874): 1. 

"To the Editor." In "The Electromotograph—A New Discovery in Telegraphy." Scientific American 31 (5 Sept. 1874): 145. 

"Platina Points: To the Editor." Operator, Supplement (15 Sept. 1874): 2.

"Duplex—No. II." Part 2 of 3. Operator (1 Oct. 1874): 1. 

"On a New Form of Relay." Telegraphic Journal 2 (1 Oct. 1874): 319–20. 

"Cable Telegraphy: To the Editor." Scientific American 31 (7 Nov. 1874): 292. 

"Duplex—No. III." Part 3 of 3. Operator (15 Nov. 1874): 1. 

"On a New Method of Working Polarised Relays." Telegraphic Journal 2 (15 Nov. 1874): 361. 

"To the Editor." Operator (1 Dec. 1874): 3.

"Cable Telegraphy: To the Editor." Scientific American 31 (12 Dec. 1874): 372. 

[1875]

"On the Imperfect Contacts Which Occur in Signalling with Rigid Contact-Points." Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers 4 (1875): 117–19. 

[1876]

"To the Editor." Scientific American 34 (1 Jan. 1876): 2. 

"Mr. Edison's New Force: To the Editor." Scientific American 34 (5 Feb. 1876): 81. 

"Mr. Edison's New Force: To the Editor." Scientific American 34 (12 Feb. 1876): 101. 

"Laboratory Notes," nos. 1–7. American Chemist 7 (Oct. 1876): 127. 

[1877]

"Laboratory Notes," nos. 8–11. American Chemist 7 (Mar. 1877): 356. 

"Edison's Pressure Relay." Journal of the Telegraph 10 (1 June 1877): 163. 

"To the Editor" [from Edward H. Johnson]. Scientific American 37 (17 Nov. 1877): 304. 

[1878]

With Edward H. Johnson. "The Phonograph and Its Future." North American Review 126 (May–June 1878): 527–536.

"To the Editor." New York Tribune (8 June 1878): 5.

"Mr. Edison on the Microphone: To the Editor." Scientific American 39 (13 July 1878): 20.

"To the Editor." New York Tribune (15 July 1878): 5.

"Professor Edison's New Carbon Rheostat." Scientific American 39 (20 July 1878): 35. 

"Telephonic Repeater: To the Editor." Chemical News 38 (26 July 1878): 45.

"On the Use of the Tasimeter for Measuring the Heat of the Stars and of the Sun's Corona." Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 27 (Aug. 1878; pub. 1879): 109–12. 

"The Sonorous Voltameter." Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 27 (Aug. 1878; pub. 1879): 112. 

"To the Editor." Scientific American 39 (28 Sept. 1878): 196.

"Telephone Relay: To the Editor." Chemical News 38 (18 Oct. 1878): 198.

[1879]

"Clerac's Tube: To the Editor." Telegraphic Journal 7 (15 Apr. 1879): 131.

"On the Phenomena of Heating Metals in Vacuo by Means of an Electric Current." Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 28 (Aug. 1879; pub. 1880): 173–78.

"On a Resonant Tuning Fork." Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 28 (Aug. 1879; pub. 1880): 178.

"A Note from Mr. Edison. The Hughes Microphone and the Blake Transmitter." Scientific American 41 (6 Dec. 1879): 360.

"Edison's Telephonic Researches." In George B. Prescott, Speaking Telephone, Electric Light, and Other Recent Electrical Inventions. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1879, pp. 218–34.

[1880]

"The Success of the Electric Light." North American Review 131 (Oct. 1880): 295–300. 

"Telegraph." By Edison and others. Appleton's Cyclopedia 2 (1880): 849–59.

[1882]

"Description of the Edison Steam Dynamo." Co-authored by Charles T. Porter. Journal of the Franklin Institute 114 (July 1882): 1–12.

"How to Succeed as an Inventor." In Lyman Abbott, ed. How to Succeed in Public Life…A Series of Essays. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1882, pp. 95–104.

[1885]

"Electricity: Man's Slave." New York Tribune (18 Jan. 1885): 10.

"New York Letter: An Interview with the Wizard of Menlo Park." George Parsons Lathrop interview. Rochester (NY) Union and Advertiser (22 May 1885).

[1886]

"The Air-Telegraph: System of Telegraphing to Trains and Ships." North American Review 142 (Mar. 1886): 285–91.

[1887]

"On a Magnetic Bridge or Balance for Measuring Magnetic Conductivity." Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 36 (Aug. 1887; pub. 1888): 92–94.

"On a Pyromagnetic Dynamo: A Machine for Producing Electricity Directly from Fuel." Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 36 (Aug. 1887; pub. 1888): 94–98.

[1888]

"The Perfected Phonograph." North American Review 146 (June 1888): 641–50.

[1889]

"Mr. Edison and His Phonograph: To the Editor." New York Tribune (23 Jan. 1889): 7.

"The Dangers of Electric Lighting." North American Review 149 (Nov. 1889): 625–34.

"The Concentration of Iron-Ore." Co-authored by John Birkinbine. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers 17 (Feb. 1889; pub. 1889): 1–17. Paper presented to the American Institute of Mining Engineers in New York.

[1890]

"An Account of Some Experiments upon the Application of Electrical Endosmose to the Treatment of Gouty Concretion." Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review 27 (22 Aug. 1890): 213. Paper presented to the International Medical Congress in Berlin, Germany.

"Talks with Edison." Harper's New Monthly Magazine 80 (February 1890): 425–35.

[1892]

"Insulation." Electrical Engineer 14 (13 July 1892): 34–35.

[1893]

“Intelligent Atoms.” In "Panpsychism and Panbiotism." The Monist 3 (1893): 242–45.

[1895]

 “Edison on Inventions. A Remarkable Interview with the Great Inventor.” Rufus R. Wilsoninterview. Monthly Illustrator and Home and Country 11 (1895): 340–44.

“Introduction.” In William K. L. Dickson and Antonia Dickson. History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, & Kinetophonograph. n.p.: W. K. L. Dickson, 1895.

[1896]

"Experiments with Roentgen Rays." Electrical Engineer 21 (25 Mar. 1896): 305.

"Further Experiments in Fluorescence Under the Cathode Ray." Electrical Engineer 21 (1 Apr. 1896): 340.

"Are Roentgen Ray Phenomena Due to Sound Waves?" Electrical Engineer 21 (8 Apr. 1896): 353–54.

"Roentgen Ray Lamps and Other Experiments." Electrical Engineer 21 (15 Apr. 1896): 378.

"A Card from Mr. Edison: To the Editor." New York Journal (18 Apr. 1896).

"Influence of Temperature on X-Ray Effects." Electrical Engineer 21 (22 Apr. 1896): 409–10.

"Photographing the Unseen: A Symposium on the Roentgen Rays." Century Magazine 52 (May 1896): 120–31. [Edison's contribution appears on p. 131.]

"Recent Roentgen Ray Observations." Electrical Engineer 22 (18 Nov. 1896): 520.

 “In the Deep of Time.” Co-authored by George Parsons Lathrop. Serialized in American newspapers by the literary syndicate of Irving Bachellor. See, for example, Milwaukee Sentinel (12 Dec. 1896): 1, 20; (20 Dec. 1896): 21; (27 Dec. 1896): 19; (3 Jan. 1897): 18.

[1897]

"Fluorescing Salts." Electrical Engineer 23 (6 Jan. 1897): 17.

"Introduction." In George E. Tewksbury, A Complete Manual of the Edison Phonograph. Newark: United States Phonograph Co., 1897, pp. 10–12.

[1898]

"Edison on the Incandescent Lamp: To the Editor." Electrical Review 32 (5 Jan. 1898): 7.

"Mr. Edison Protests Against Yellow Journalism: To the Editor." New York Sun (12 Jan. 1898): 6.

"Do Lightning Rods Protect?" Popular Science News 32 (May 1898): 116.

[1901]

"The New Edison Storage Battery." Coauthored by Arthur E. Kennelly. In Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers 28 (1901): 219–48.

[1902]

“The Storage Battery and the Motor Car.”  North American Review 175 (July 1902): 1–4.

[1904]

“Beginnings of the Incandescent Lamp.” Scientific American Supplement 57 (14 May 1904): 23711–12.

[1910]

“Inventions of the Future.” The Independent 68 (6 Jan. 1910): 15–18.

"'No Immortality of the Soul.' Says Thomas A. Edison." New York Times Magazine (2 Oct. 1890): 1, 15.

[1911]

“Thomas A. Edison on Immortality.” Edward Marshall interview. Columbian Magazine 3 (Jan. 1911): 603–12.

"The Wonderful New World Ahead of Us.” Allan L. Benson interview. Cosmopolitan 50 (Feb. 1911): 294–306.

“Impressions of European Industries.” Scientific American 105 (18 Nov. 1911): 445–45.

“Edison on Co-operation vs. Competition.” Manufacturer’s Record 60 (14 Dec. 1911): 49–50.

“Edison on Invention and Inventors.” Waldon P. Warren interview. Century Magazine 82 (July 1911) 415­–19.

"Mr. Edison Says: Electricity and Machinery Can Make Household Drudgery a Thing of the Past." Allan L. Benson interview. The Delineator 77 (Jan. 1911): 7, 67.

[1912]

“The Woman of the Future.” Edward Marshall interview. Good Housekeeping 55 (Oct. 1912): 436–44.

“Edison Says Germany Excels Us.” Allan L. Benson interview. The World To-Day 21 (Nov. 1911): 1356–60.

[1913]

“Give the Inventor a Fair Chance. Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly. (2 Jan. 1913): [4?].

[1914]

 “Today and Tomorrow.” John R. McMahon interview. Independent 77 (5 Jan. 1914): 24–27.

[1915]

"Edison’s Plan for Preparedness." Edward Marshall interview. New York Times (30 May 1915): SM:6–7.

1920

Edison's Views on lIfe and Death. Austin C. Lescarboura Interview. Scientific American 123 (30 Oct. 1920): 446, 458-60.

"How to Communicate with the Next World. Forbes, Bertie Charles interview. American Magazine (Oct. 1920): 10-11, 82, 85.

1921

"Mr. Edison's 'Life Units.'" A. D. Rothman interview. New York Times (23 Jan. 1921): S7:1, 4.

[1922]

A Proposed Amendment to the Federal Reserve Banking System: Plan and Notes. West Orange, N.J.: Thomas A. Edison, 1922.

[1923]

 “How I Would Double the Volume of a Business.” Samuel Crowther interview. System 44 (Sept. 1923): 265–68, 330–32.

[1925]

“Introduction.” In William M. van der Weyde, The Life and Works of Thomas Paine. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Thomas Paine National Historical Association, 1925, 1:vii–ix.

[1926]

“Machine-Made Freedom.” Edward Marshall interview. Forum 76 (Oct. 1926): 492–49.

“Has Man an Immortal Soul?” Edward Marshall interview. Forum 76 (Nov. 1926): 641–50.

 “Scientific City of the Future.” Edward Marshall interview. Forum 76 (Dec. 1926): 823–82.

[1927]

 “Youth of To-day and To-morrow.” Edward Marshall interview. Forum 77 (January 1927): 41–53.