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DRIVEN by his deafness to read his way through the Detroit Public Library, Edison wrote long afterwards that he had found that almost any book would book entertainment or instruction. This contains selected excerpts from his writings, supplies the first in good measure and, for those who reflect on reading, more than a modicum of the second.
The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison
Edited by Dagobert D. Runes. Pp. xii+247+5 plates. (New York: Philosophical Library, Inc., 1948.) 4.75 dollars.
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R., W. The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison. Nature 163, 153 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163153b0
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