Editorial comment for this plate:

THOMAS A. EDISON.

Our readers will all be glad to have the excellent portrait of Thomas A. Edison, which we present to them with this issue of THE PHOTOGRAPHIC TIMES. Perhaps no man of science ever lived who was so universally admired and respected as is Thomas A. Edison. And few if any have lived to see the results of their inventive genius crowned with such conspicuous success. Edison will be a name remembered not only for its connection with the phonograph, the telephone, and innumerable applications of electricity; but will also be associated with those who have made the camera the power which it is in our time, and the much greater power which it is destined to be in the future.

Mr. Edison has always been interested in photography, but of late this interest has grown, with the result of his applying his surpassing inventive genius to it, and the kineograph, which has been widely described in the public press, was invented.

Undoubtedly we have much more to expect from the “Wizard of Menlo Park”; how much, it is impossible to say; but almost anything may be hoped for from one who has made so many inventions, any one of which might justly make this century momentous. The excellent reproduction was made by Bartholomew & Peckham, New York City, direct from Mr. Falk’s negative, being etched on copper by their new method of making half-tone plates.