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.
