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" When he reached this period, I gave orders for the works to run night and day until we got enough engines, and when all was ready, we started the main engine. "
Science and Industry - Page 136
1901
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Thomas Alva Edison: Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life

Francis Arthur Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 1907 - 434 pages
...give 175 horse-power. He went back to Providence and set to work and brought the engine back with him. It worked, but only a few minutes, when it busted....until he got his engine right and made it work the way we wanted it to. When he reached this period I gave orders for the works to run night and day until...
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Edison: His Life and Inventions, Volume 1

Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin - Inventors - 1910 - 532 pages
...went back to Providence and set to work, and brought the engine back with him to the shop. It worked only a few minutes when it busted. That man sat around...When he reached this period I gave orders for the engine-works to run night and day until we got enough engines, and when all was ready we started the...
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Stories of Achievement, Volume 5

Asa Don Dickinson - Biography - 1916 - 238 pages
...give 175 horsepower. He went back to Providence and set to work and brought the engine back with him. It worked but only a few minutes, when it busted. That man sat around the shop and slept in it for three weeks until he got his engine right and made it work the way we...
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Thomas Alva Edison, an Intimate Record

Francis Arthur Jones - Electrical engineers - 1924 - 456 pages
...give 175 horse-power. He went back to Providence and set to work and brought the engine back with him. It worked, but only a few minutes, when it busted....until he got his engine right and made it work the way we wanted it to. When he reached this period I gave orders for the works to run night and day until...
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Edison: The Man and His Works

George Sands Bryan - Inventors - 1926 - 376 pages
...give 175 horse-power. He went back to Providence and set to work and brought the engine back with him. It worked, but only a few minutes, when it busted....until he got his engine right and made it work the way we wanted it to. When he reached this period I gave orders for the works to run night and day until...
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