Edison as I know him, by Henry Ford, in collaboration with Samuel Crowther.

EDISON As I KNOW HIM

know that he learned on a table exactly like it.
It was in this building that Mr. Edison finally
managed to achieve a phonograph record with
the proper "s" sound and here also he began many
lines of investigation which he completed in the
northern laboratories.
We have gone somewhat further in the reconstruction of Mr. Edison's life. Some time ago we
bought the railroad station at Smith's Creek on
the Grand Trunk Railroad. This station was
built in 1858-59 and it is historic because it was
at this very station that young Edison was
dumped off the train with his first little laboratory. The station has been reerected on the
grounds and, to carry out the whole picture on the
occasion of the jubilee of Mr. Edison's great invention, we obtained an old locomotive such as
was used on the trains that Edison served as a
newsboy, and also we found and reconstructed
some of the old passenger cars of the time, including one in which we are exactly recreating
his boyhood train laboratory.
We have throughout this work run down every
detail with Mr. Edison and his associates and I
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