“ One excuse, and then another for deferring it will be given, and after a few more flashes in the pan, we shall hear but a very little more of Edison or his electric lamp. Every claim he makes has been tested and proved impracticable. ”

“ Edison's failure to make good his enthusiastic promises speedily is having an effect on the public mind is everywhere admitted. The stock of the company named after the inventor is also feeling the effects of deferred expectations. ”

“ Instead of all this, he found a half-dozen small buildings, with but a few of the adjuncts he had imagined. In one building a single assistant was engaged testing telephones of a pattern which he was informed was intended for the English market, and had not yet been introduced here. ”