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Excerpt from Thomas an Edison and Samuel F. B. Morse He had reached this degree of success at twenty three years of age, though he had never attended a college, nor heard a course of scientific lectures, nor enjoyed any of the supposed advantages which wait upon endowed efforts in behalf of education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.