[COMPLETE] The Story of Edison by Frank Mundell - dc

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The Story of Edison and The Wonders of Electricity, by Frank Mundell (1870 - 1932)

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Despite not having attended conventional school for more than a few months during his childhood, Thomas Alva Edison received a good grounding in the essential subjects of reading, writing and arithmetic at home from his mother (a former school mistress).

Edison took the knowledge gained from these subjects and combined it with an insatiable curiosity, a fascination with all aspects of technology, an indomitable spirit and a passion to overcome any problem or seize any opportunity that circumstance might present him with to eventually become one of the finest inventors the world has ever seen.

This book explores some of the highs and lows that Edison encountered throughout his life and shows how he was able to turn apparent adverse situations to his advantage. A number of his inventions including his improvements connected with the telegraph and telephone, as well as the development of the phonograph and the electric light bulb are covered in various chapters.

This book was one in a series of inspirational texts by the Victorian author Frank Mundell and published in his Men of Fame collection of books. Frank Mundell wrote a significant number of books for children and many of these were distributed and presented to them through their Sunday schools. (Summary by Steve C)
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://archive.org/details/the-story-of-edison/mode/2up

Target completion date: 2021-09-30

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Genres for the project: Children's Non-fiction/Biography

Keywords that describe the book: children's books, inventors, sunday school, the sunday school union, inspiring stories,

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"Chapter One of The Story of Edison and The Wonders of Electricity. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." "The Story of Edison and The Wonders of Electricity, by Frank Mundell. Chapter One - A Wide-Awake Boy."
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Craigdav1 has kindly offered to MC & DPL this project. :)
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MW coming up.

edit: Except for the first intro and last outro you could shorten the title to "The Story of Edison." Entirely your decision. Will move this out of Launch Pad later today.
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craigdav1 wrote: July 26th, 2021, 7:39 am MW coming up.
And duly filled in!
edit: Except for the first intro and last outro you could shorten the title to "The Story of Edison." Entirely your decision. Will move this out of Launch Pad later today.
Thanks for the suggestion but I think that I will keep the longer title since I have recorded most of the sections already. (They're just awaiting editing).

Anyway, sections 1 & 2 uploaded just to start you off! :)

Cheers

Steve
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1-2 PL OK!
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Moving topic to Going Solo forum.
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Thanks for PLing 1 & 2 - Sections 3 & 4 now uploaded.

Steve
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3-4 PL OK!

Nice book.
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Nice book.
Yes, I thought so too. Frank Mundell has written a really engaging book about the life of a really interesting person.
3-4 PL OK!
Thanks for PLing 3 & 4 - Sections 5 & 6 now uploaded.

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5-6 PL OK!
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Thanks for PLing 5 & 6 - Sections 7 & 8 now uploaded.
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7-8 PL OK!
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Thanks for PLing 7 & 8 - Sections 9 & 10 now uploaded.
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9-10 PL OK!

Interesting and fun stuff.
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Interesting and fun stuff.
I have to totally agree with that observation!

But it does get even more interesting as Edison releases an oratorio by Handel, 'rendered by 4000 voices, a huge organ and a mammoth orchestra'. Presumably using just one microphone to record the entire performance - in one take and with no editing possible!! :shock:

(... in one take and with no editing ... - if only that were true of my Librivox recordings!!).

Thanks for PLing 9 & 10 - sections 11 & 12 now uploaded.

Steve
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