Download and read  "Radio Boys Cronies" by Aaron Samuel Francis

...who tries to make Edison out a small potato, " declared Bill, addressing the others, rather than the supercilious youth who hadmaligned his hero, "is simply ignorant of the facts. My father knew aman well who worked for Edison in his laboratory for years. He said thatthe stories about Edison making use of the inventions of others is allnonsense; it is Edison who has the ideas and who starts his assistantsto experimenting, some at one thing, some at another, so as to find outwhether the ideas are good. "He said that the yarns they tell about Edison's working straight aheadfor hours and hours without food and sleep, then throwing himself on acouch for a short nap and getting up to go at it again are all exactlytrue, over and over again. He said that one of the boys in the shoptried to play a trick on the old man, as they call him, while he wasnapping on the couch. They rigged up a talking-machine on a stand anddressed it in some of Edison's old clothes, put a lullaby record on it, lugged...