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The Papers of Thomas A. Edison
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 862

The Papers of Thomas A. Edison

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Seeking to replicate the success of his New York electric central station throughout the United States and in Europe and Latin America, Thomas A. Edison vowed to become a "business man for a year." This bold decision began a remarkable transition period for America's greatest inventive thinker. The seventh volume of Edison's papers chronicles the profound changes in his professional and personal life, including the unexpected death of his wife. It concludes with Edison returning to the laboratory to develop new communications technology.

Third Report of the Secretary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 82

Third Report of the Secretary

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1880
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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When Colleges Sang
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

When Colleges Sang

When Colleges Sang is an illustrated history of the rich culture of college singing from the earliest days of the American republic to the present. Before fraternity songs, alma maters, and the rahs of college fight songs became commonplace, students sang. Students in the earliest American colleges created their own literary melodies that they shared with their classmates. As J. Lloyd Winstead documents in When Colleges Sang, college singing expanded in conjunction with the growth of the nation and the American higher education system. While it was often simply an entertaining pastime, singing had other subtle and not-so-subtle effects. Singing indoctrinated students into the life of formal ...

The Triennial Report of the Secretary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

The Triennial Report of the Secretary

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1877
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Fifth Report of the Class Secretary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 88

Fifth Report of the Class Secretary

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1889
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Narrative and Critical History of America: The English and French in North America 1689-1763
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1493

Narrative and Critical History of America: The English and French in North America 1689-1763

THE story of the French occupation in America is not that of a people slowly moulding itself into a nation. In France there was no state but the king; in Canada there could be none but the governor. Events cluster around the lives of individuals. According to the discretion of the leaders the prospects of the colony rise and fall. Stories of the machinations of priests at Quebec and at Montreal, of their heroic sufferings at the hands of the Hurons and the Iroquois, and of individual deeds of valor performed by soldiers, fill the pages of the record. The prosperity of the colony rested upon the fate of a single industry,—the trade in peltries. In pursuit of this, the hardy trader braved th...

American Baptist Missionary Magazine and Missionary Intelligencer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 938

American Baptist Missionary Magazine and Missionary Intelligencer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1877
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Volumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union.

Fall River Directory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 530

Fall River Directory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1880
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Guide to Research Collections of Former Members of the United States House of Representatives, 1789-1987
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 528
Secretary's Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 50

Secretary's Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1874
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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