The Boyhood of an Inventor - Early Television Foundation

many, many
first
miles from the near
est neighbor.
The boy will never
forget the occasion
when his aunt walked
with him across the
field to this old log
house, nor the elation
of discovery when up
under the roof were
found some pewter
A "Cape-Cod" lantern, a tallow candle in a perforated
tin case
spoons, a powder horn, a dip-wick candle lantern, and
a great old clock made wholly of wood, including the
toothed wheels of the gear train.
Surely this was a veritable treasure-house of in
terest, and this same boy more than once in later
years has pictured to himself the setting in that hum
ble home, musing on a typical fireside scene of that
long ago, as he himself sits by a modern electric
light on the library table.
Remembering so distinctly the old log cabin, it
doesn't take such a vivid imagination to picture the
young mother tracing out the alaphabet with a sharp
stick in the fine wood ashes on the hearth, as her
little chick with an elbow on her knee, watched with
sparkling eyes the changing tracery
A flax carder
of each letter
and figure as he
learned his A B Cs.
And how this
"chick" grew to
manhood, measur
ing his wits and his
brawn against op
posing elements as
he widened his in
fluence in the sur
rounding forest,
noting the addition
al settlers, with gre-