Thomas Alva Edison, Hiram Stevens Maxim, Andrew Carnegie, Hazen S. Pingree, Marshall Field, John Wanamaker, Sir Thomas Lipton, Darius Ogden Mills, Russell Sage, Lyman Judson Gage, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Robert C. Clowry, Herbert H. Vreeland, Samuel Gompers, Theodore Roosevelt, Nelson A. Miles, Joseph H. Choate, Chauncey M. Depew, Jonathan P. Dolliver, Thomas C. Platt, Tom L. Johnson, Jacob Gould Schurman, James Whitcomb Riley, Edwin Markham, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Dean Howells, General Lew Wallace, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Edwin Austin Abbey, Alice Barber Stephens, Frederic Remington, Homer Davenport, Charles Dana Gibson, Frederick Burr Opper, F. Wellington Ruckstuhl, Henry Merwin Shrady, Marshall P. Wilder, Richard Mansfield, John Philip Sousa, Helen Keller, John Burroughs, Helen Miller Gould, Nathan Strauss, Russell H. Conwell, Frank W. Gunsaulus, Robert Collyer, Robert Laird Borden, Goldwin Smith, S. N. Parent, Andrew G. Blair, James Loudon, Sir William C. Van Horne, Samuel Jones, Philip D. Armour, John B. Herreshoff, Lillian Nordica
Little Visits with Great Americans
Complete Edition (Vol. 1&2)
Editor: Orison Swett Marden
e-artnow, 2020
Contact: [email protected]
EAN: 4064066389697
Table of Contents
VOLUME 1
Table of Contents
BOOK ONE INSPIRATIONAL TALKS WITH FAMOUS AMERICANS.
I Hard Work: the Secret of a Great Inventor’s Genius.
A NOVEL METHOD OF TELEGRAPHING.
POVERTY AS AN INCENTIVE TO EFFORT.
NEVER DID ANYTHING WORTH WHILE BY CHANCE.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUTURE INVENTORS.
MRS. EDISON IS ALSO AN INVENTOR OF GOOD ABILITY.
II A “Down-east” Yankee who Dictates Peace to the Nations.
THE MAN WHOSE GUNS WILL CLEAR A JUNGLE.
HIS BRAIN IS BUILT UP OF INVENTIVE CELLS.
PAT’S ANXIETY TO TRY “THE BOSS,” AND ITS RESULT.
HOW THE MAINE “BACKWOODSMAN” CAPTURED A ROBBER.
FROM GAS MACHINES TO INCANDESCENT LAMPS.
THE GENESIS OF THE AUTOMATIC GUN.
AUTOMATIC GUNS MADE SMOKELESS POWDER INDISPENSABLE.
HOW LI HUNG CHANG BECAME INTERESTED IN MAXIM.
HOW A FIRST-CLASS FRAUD WAS EXPOSED.
III A Poor Boy Once Borrowed Books Now Gives Away Libraries.
IT IS HARDER NOW TO GET A START.
HIS FIRST GLIMPSE OF PARADISE.
IT IS BEST TO BEGIN AT THE BOTTOM.
HE WAS AN EXPERT TELEGRAPH OPERATOR.
CARNEGIE AND THE SLEEPING-CAR.