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

EDISON As I KNOW HIM
of thousands of commodities, would be a highpriced luxury article without the aid of the electric motor in its manufacturing.
Electricity as a servant of general utility began
with Edison. No one has as yet been able to comprehend how far-reaching this use of electricity
really is, for it goes through every phase of our
lives. But, in addition, Mr. Edison's inventions
and developments were fundamental to the practical introduction of the telephone and to the extension of the telegraph as a cheap and general
method of communication. He also made the
typewriter a practical office machine and performed the largest single work in the development of the storage battery.
These inventions, the purport of which I have
sketched, have made modern industry possible.
Without them we could not have volume production and without them we could not have the
large corporation, for it depends upon volume
production, quick transport and quick communication. These things have vitally changed all of
our lives, but also and in a different way our
lives have been changed by the phonograph and
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