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

EDISON As I KNOW HIM

Money to Edison has always meant only the
wherewithal to make experiments. He has never
in the least cared for money as a thing of itself,
but also he is one of the few pioneers in the world
of science who have stood squarely on their own
feet and he has always earned the money to carry
on whatever work he found most useful and
interesting.
He set up a little laboratory-as is well known
-in the baggage car on the train where he kept
his newspapers and supplies, and the needs of
this laboratory soon outran his earnings, so that
he had to look around for further funds. That
took him into publishing a small newspaper-the
Weekly Herald-which he printed right on the
train. His original printing press cannot be
found, but I discovered one made by the same
manufacturer, which Edison has said is an exact
duplicate of the original.
The point, however, is not that young Edison
published a newspaper for the first time on a train
or that he was able to get out a first-class sheet
at so early an age. The point is that he had in
him so irrepressible an urge to be a scientist that
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